Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] pinctrl / gpio: Introduce .set_config() callback for GPIO chips

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Mon Jan 23 2017 - 12:11:26 EST


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:34:34PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Currently we already have two pin configuration related callbacks
> available for GPIO chips .set_single_ended() and .set_debounce(). In
> future we expect to have even more, which does not scale well if we need
> to add yet another callback to the GPIO chip structure for each possible
> configuration parameter.
>
> Better solution is to reuse what we already have available in the
> generic pinconf.
>
> To support this, we introduce a new .set_config() callback for GPIO
> chips. The callback takes a single packed pin configuration value as
> parameter. This can then be extended easily beyond what is currently
> supported by just adding new types to the generic pinconf enum.
>
> If the GPIO driver is backed up by a pinctrl driver the GPIO driver can
> just assign gpiochip_generic_config() (introduced in this patch) to
> .set_config and that will take care configuration requests are directed
> to the pinctrl driver.
>
> We then convert the existing drivers over .set_config() and finally
> remove the .set_single_ended() and .set_debounce() callbacks.
>
> Suggested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/gpio/driver.txt | 9 +++--
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-dln2.c | 12 ++++--
> drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c | 11 ++++--
> drivers/gpio/gpio-f7188x.c | 19 +++++----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-lp873x.c | 14 +++----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-max77620.c | 20 +++++-----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-menz127.c | 34 +++++++++++-----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-merrifield.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-tc3589x.c | 15 ++++---
> drivers/gpio/gpio-tegra.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-tps65218.c | 14 +++----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-vx855.c | 13 ++++---
> drivers/gpio/gpio-wcove.c | 13 +++----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-wm831x.c | 21 +++++-----
> drivers/gpio/gpio-wm8994.c | 13 +++----
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++----------
> drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c | 14 ++++++-
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.c | 55 +++++++-------------------
> drivers/staging/greybus/gpio.c | 15 ++++---
> drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 13 ++++---

For greybus and USB serial:

Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Note however that this patch fails to apply to linux-next (conflicts in
pinctrl as well as staging).

Thanks,
Johan