[BUG] LPC32xx gpio driver broken by commit 762c2e46 in 4.9-rc1

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.

2016-10-24 9:46 GMT+09:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Sylvain Lemieux
> <slemieux.tyco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the current LPC32xx GPIO driver is broken by commit 762c2e46
>> (gpio: of: remove of_gpiochip_and_xlate() and struct gg_data).
>>
>> A call to "of_get_named_gpio" to retrieve the GPIO will
>> always return -EINVAL, except for the first GPIO bank.
>>
>> Prior to this commit, the driver was working properly
>> because of the side-effect of the match function called by
>> "gpiochip_find" inside "of_get_named_gpiod_flags" function.
> (...)
>> Is there any short-term solution that can be done with
>> the existing driver to keep the LPC32xx platform working
>> properly in the 4.9 mainline kernel?
>
> Masahiro, what do you think is the best course to proceed here?
> Can we
> - Restore the behaviour prior to the patches or
> - Fix up all users or
> - Do we have to revert these two patches?
>
> I would prefer not to revert, because I liked the cleanup a lot ...
>


Personally, I do not want to revert, either.

I guess, this discussion comes down to
"is it justified to register multiple chips
associated to a single DT node?"


I feel like, DT properties such as
"gpio-hog", "gpio-ranges" assume one gpio_chip for one node.

We can register multi gpio_chip if we like, but
it looks odd to parse the same DT properties over and over again
looping gpio_chips.


If we move forward to single gpio_chip solution,
please check my RFC
"gpio: of: fix GPIO drivers with multiple gpio_chip for a single node"
as a long-term (but not too long) solution.



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada