[PATCH v5 05/10] pinctrl: single: support pinconf generic
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Wed Nov 21 19:08:07 EST 2012
* Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang at gmail.com> [121118 06:25]:
>
> pin_config_set() sets the config value into pinmux register. The upper 16-bit
> is config argument, and the lower 16-bit is config parameter. The
> pinmux register
> is 32-bit in Marvell's silicon. I think it's 32-bit value in most silicons.
Well what if we soon have a 64-bit mux register? We should probably
reserve more than 5 bits for the shift to handle those cases as
well.
> And real field value could be lower 16-bit. So I have to pack mask,
> shift, config value
> & config parameter into 32-bit data. The limitation is mask, shift,
> value are all 5-bit
> value. And this is also the reason that I define pinctrl_lookup_map()
> into consumer.h.
Yes this might be problematic for 64-bit systems..
> How could consumer driver know mask & shift? It has to lookup map to
> get the real
> configuration.
I think the consumer driver should not know anything about the
mask & shift.
> We also need to keep pin_config_get() compatible with pin_config_set(). I define
> the config data as packed mask, shift, config value & config parameter.
>
> The conclusion is that we have two choices.
> 1. Use packed way. It's a little complex.
I think the packed way won't work well for consumer drivers.
> 2. Change the interface of pin_config_set()/pin_config_get(). We need
> to use the new
> interface in below.
> pin_config_set(const char *dev_name, const char *name, unsigned
> long parameter,
> unsigned long config);
> pin_config_get(const char *dev_name, const char *name, unsigned
> long parameter,
> unsigned long *config);
> And the config should be "value >> shift".
>
> What's your opinion? I prefer the second method since it's easy to
> understand and maintain.
> Then I could hide pinctrl_lookup_map() in core.h.
Yes something like that makes sense to me. Except IMHO we should
use some cookie for a pin instead of dev_name + name, and have
some struct for the config. Something like this perhaps:
pin_config_get(struct pin *pin, struct pin_config *config,
unsigned long parameter);
Regards,
Tony
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