[PATCH v11 5/7] i2c: of-prober: Add GPIO support to simple helpers

Andrey Skvortsov andrej.skvortzov at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 07:33:37 PST 2024


On 24-11-06 17:33, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Add GPIO support to the simple helpers for the I2C OF component prober.
> Components that the prober intends to probe likely require their
> regulator supplies be enabled, and GPIOs be toggled to enable them or
> bring them out of reset before they will respond to probe attempts.
> Regulator supplies were handled in the previous patch.
> 
> The assumption is that the same class of components to be probed are
> always connected in the same fashion with the same regulator supply
> and GPIO. The names may vary due to binding differences, but the
> physical layout does not change.
> 
> This supports at most one GPIO pin. The user must specify the GPIO name,
> the polarity, and the amount of time to wait after the GPIO is toggled.
> Devices with more than one GPIO pin likely require specific power
> sequencing beyond what generic code can easily support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>

> ---
> Changes since v10:
> - Added include of linux/types.h for |bool|

Tested-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov at gmail.com>

Patches 1-5 from this patchset were successfully tested with hardware
prober for i2c magnetometer on PinePhone on next-20241107. [1]

1. https://github.com/AndreySV/linux-stable/commits/in-kernel-i2c-hwprober-magnetometer/

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Best regards,
Andrey Skvortsov



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