Re: [PATCH] gpio MIPS/OCTEON: Add a driver for OCTEON's on-chip GPIOpins.

From: David Daney
Date: Mon Jun 24 2013 - 21:53:49 EST


Thanks for looking at this again.

I will be away from my office until the middle of July, so I will not be able to generate and test a revised patch until then.

David Daney



On 06/24/2013 03:06 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:10 PM, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/17/2013 01:51 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:

+#include <asm/octeon/octeon.h>
+#include <asm/octeon/cvmx-gpio-defs.h>

I cannot find this in my tree.

Weird, I see them here:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-gpio-defs.h
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/octeon.h

Do you not have these?

Yeah no problem, I must have misgrepped.
Sorry for the fuzz...

depend on OF as well right? Or does the CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC already
imply that?

We already have 'select USE_OF', so I think adding OF here would be
redundant.

OK.

+/*
+ * The address offset of the GPIO configuration register for a given
+ * line.
+ */
+static unsigned int bit_cfg_reg(unsigned int gpio)

Maybe the passed variable shall be named "offset" here, as it is named
offset on all call sites, and it surely local for this instance?

Well it is the gpio line, so perhaps it should universally be change to
"line" or "pin"

We use "offset" to signify line enumerators in drivers/gpio/*
well atleaste if they are local to a piece of hardware.
(Check the GPIO siblings.)

+{
+ if (gpio < 16)
+ return 8 * gpio;
+ else
+ return 8 * (gpio - 16) + 0x100;


Put this 0x100 in the #defines above with the name something like
STRIDE.

But it is not a 'STRIDE', it is a discontinuity compensation and used in
exactly one place.

OK what about a comment or something, because it isn't
exactly intuitive right?

+struct octeon_gpio {
+ struct gpio_chip chip;
+ u64 register_base;
+};

OMG everything is 64 bit. Well has to come to this I guess.

Not everything. This is custom logic in an SoC with 64-bit wide internal
address buses, what would you suggest?

Yep that's what I meant, no big deal. Just first time
I really see it in driver bases.

I'm not a fan of packed bitfields like this, I prefer if you just
OR | and AND & the bits together in the driver.

I see you disregarded this comment, and looking at the header
files it seems the MIPS arch is a big fan if packed bitfields so
will live with it for this arch...

+static int octeon_gpio_get(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset)
+{
+ struct octeon_gpio *gpio = container_of(chip, struct octeon_gpio,
chip);
+ u64 read_bits = cvmx_read_csr(gpio->register_base + RX_DAT);
+
+ return ((1ull << offset) & read_bits) != 0;

A common idiom we use for this is:

return !!(read_bits & (1ull << offset));

I hate that idiom, but if its use is a condition of accepting the patch, I
will change it.

Nah. If a good rational reason like "hate" is given for not using a coding
idiom I will accept it as it stands ;-)

+ dev_info(&pdev->dev, "OCTEON GPIO\n");


This is like shouting "REAL MADRID!" in the bootlog, be a bit more
precise: "octeon GPIO driver probed\n" or something so we know what
is happening.

No, more akin to 'Real Madrid', as 'OCTEON' is the correct spelling of its
given name.

I will happily add "driver probed", and grudgingly switch to lower case if
it is a necessary condition of patch acceptance.

I don't know, does this rest of the MIPS drivers emit similar messages
such that the bootlog will say

OCTEON clocks
OCTEON irqchip
OCTEON I2C
OCTEON GPIO

then I guess it's convention and it can stay like this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/