Re: [PATCH v12 3/7] gpiolib: of: make fwnode take precedence in struct gpio_chip

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Dec 03 2021 - 15:10:30 EST


On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 08:28:34PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:04 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 08:56:27PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 08:51:56PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:29:59PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

...

> > > > > if (gc->parent)
> > > > > gdev->dev.of_node = gc->parent->of_node;
> > > > >
> > > > > + if (gc->fwnode)
> > > > > + gc->of_node = to_of_node(gc->fwnode);
> > > > > +
> > > > > /* If the gpiochip has an assigned OF node this takes precedence */
> > > > > if (gc->of_node)
> > > > > gdev->dev.of_node = gc->of_node;
> > > >
> > > > Similar should be done in acpi_gpio_dev_init():


^^^^^^ (1)

...

> > If we have parent device for several GPIO devices, this won't work right now
> > due to limitations of fwnode regarding to the sturct device.
> >
> > So, it means we may not have shared primary with different secondary fwnodes.
> >
> > So, come back to the initial suggestion (overwrite it for now):
> >
> > /*
> > * If custom fwnode provided, use it. Currently we may not
> > * handle the case where shared primary node has different
> > * secondary ones. Ideally we have to use
> > * set_secondary_fwnode() here.
> > */
> > if (gc->fwnode)
> > device_set_node(&gdev->dev, gc->fwnode);
> >
>
> Other parts of gpiolib-of depend on the of_node being there.
> Converting it to fwnode is a whole other task so for now I suggest we
> just convert the fwnode to of_node in struct gpio_chip as per my
> patch.

But this is about ACPI counterpart. If you do this, do this in both cases.
Above code for ACPI (1).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko