Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: add a pinctrl_mux_group_selected() function

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
> <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > [Stephen]
> >> If using device tree, the bus-width property should be used. If not
> >> using device tree, presumably you'd add an equivalent field to the
> >> platform data.
> >
> > Wouldn't adding a bus-width field to the platform data be redundant,
> > considering it's already available in the pinctrl configuration?
> 
> Maybe, but Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc.txt
> mandates that you specify this width anyway I think, it's
> stated as "requiered".
> 
> The bindings should be useable also for systems which does not
> have pinctrl.
> 
> > Or should we request several configurations from the driver?
> 
> Do you mean several states?

yes, sorry

> > One of the 3 bus widthes, and additionally
> > a card-detection and a write-protect configurations?
> 
> Isn't the card detection and write protect GPIO lines that
> will be requested with gpio_request()? This is usually the case,
> so I need to ask. GPIOs are usually muxed in on a per-pin basis
> as a result of the gpio_request() call.

They can be, but they don't have to be. On some SDHI implementations CD is 
a dedicated pin, belonging to the controller, but in those cases it is 
usually preferable to configure it as a GPIO. On some boards it is just a 
GPIO, on others yet it is just missing. Similarly, WP can be a GPIO or 
absent.

> I don't know how your setup works but we have something like
> this for an external SD card:

Yes, thanks, I understand that. But as I said, we can well have all 12 
configurations: 1, 4, or 8 bits, each of them with any or both of CD and 
WP or without them. Only the board knows about that.

The idea was to make the driver use the same pin-discovery method, 
independent whether DT is present or not: the pinctrl. And the pinctrl 
would be either specified in the platform data or in DT. This would avoid 
special handling of the no-DT case in the driver.

Thanks
Guennadi

> NB: I use these macros to shorten the lines, it's just simple hogs
> on our primary pin controller:
> 
> #define DB8500_MUX(group,func,dev) \
>         PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP_DEFAULT(dev, "pinctrl-db8500", group, func)
> #define DB8500_PIN(pin,conf,dev) \
>         PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN_DEFAULT(dev, "pinctrl-db8500", pin, conf)
> 
> /* Mux in SDI0 (here called MC0) used for removable MMC/SD/SDIO cards */
> DB8500_MUX("mc0_a_1", "mc0", "sdi0"),
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO18_AC2", out_hi, "sdi0"), /* CMDDIR */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO19_AC1", out_hi, "sdi0"), /* DAT0DIR */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO20_AB4", out_hi, "sdi0"), /* DAT2DIR */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO22_AA3", in_nopull, "sdi0"), /* FBCLK */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO23_AA4", out_lo, "sdi0"), /* CLK */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO24_AB2", in_pu, "sdi0"), /* CMD */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO25_Y4", in_pu, "sdi0"), /* DAT0 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO26_Y2", in_pu, "sdi0"), /* DAT1 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO27_AA2", in_pu, "sdi0"), /* DAT2 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO28_AA1", in_pu, "sdi0"), /* DAT3 */
> 
> When "default" is selected, the group mc0_a_1 is muxed in
> on function mc0, and the 10 pins are configured.(out_hi etc
> are lists of configuration values).
> 
> We coul name this state "4bitsd" or so, and have another state
> called "8bitemmc". Nothing stops you from also configuring pull-ups
> on GPIO pins etc in this table.
> 
> We have several ports, here is an eMMC:
> 
> /* Mux in SDI2 (here called MC2) used for for PoP eMMC */
> DB8500_MUX("mc2_a_1", "mc2", "sdi2"),
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO128_A5", out_lo, "sdi2"), /* CLK */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO129_B4", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* CMD */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO130_C8", in_nopull, "sdi2"), /* FBCLK */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO131_A12", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT0 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO132_C10", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT1 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO133_B10", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT2 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO134_B9", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT3 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO135_A9", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT4 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO136_C7", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT5 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO137_A7", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT6 */
> DB8500_PIN("GPIO138_C5", in_pu, "sdi2"), /* DAT7 */
> 
> Isn't you board similarly hard-coded from the platform or
> device tree? It seems less kludgy to ask DT or platform data
> about the bus width if that is all.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 

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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
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