Re: [PATCH 0/4] gpio: dwapb: Fix reference clocks usage

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Mar 12 2020 - 09:58:48 EST


On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:25 PM <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is no need in any fixes to have the Baikal-T1 SoC DW GPIO controllers
> supported by the kernel DW APB GPIO driver. It works for them just fine with
> no modifications. But still there is a room for optimizations there.
>
> First of all as it tends to be traditional for all Baikal-T1 SoC related
> patchset we replaced the legacy plain text-based dt-binding file with
> yaml-based one. Baikal-T1 DW GPIO port A supports a debounce functionality,
> but in order to use it the corresponding reference clock must be enabled.
> We added support of that clock in the driver and made sure the dt-bindings
> had its declaration. In addition seeing both APB and debounce reference
> clocks are optional, we replaced the standard devm_clk_get() usage with
> the function of optional clocks acquisition.
>
> This patchset is rebased and tested on the mainline Linux kernel 5.6-rc4:
> commit 98d54f81e36b ("Linux 5.6-rc4").
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maxim Kaurkin <Maxim.Kaurkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ramil Zaripov <Ramil.Zaripov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ekaterina Skachko <Ekaterina.Skachko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vadim Vlasov <V.Vlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hoan Tran <hoan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I like these patches, once Rob is happy with the bindings I'll be
happy to merge them. I haven't heard from Hoan Tran in a while,
so if we don't hear from him this time either I would suggest you
also add yourself as maintainer for this driver, if you don't mind.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij