Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:59:41 +0530 | From | Sekhar Nori <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: davinci: fix gpio selection for OF |
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On Friday 14 March 2014 04:32 PM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote: >> Am 11.03.2014 11:15, schrieb Linus Walleij: >>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote: >>> >>>> The driver missed an of_xlate function to translate gpio numbers >>>> as found in the DT to the correct chip and number. >>>> >>>> While there I've set #gpio_cells to a fixed value of 2. >>>> >>>> I've used gpio-pxa.c as template for those changes and tested my changes >>>> successfully on a da850 board using entries for gpio-leds in a DT. So I didn't >>>> reinvent the wheel but just copied and tested stuff. >>>> >>>> Thanks to Grygorii Strashko for the hint to the existing code in gpio-pxa. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> >>>> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com> >>> >>> This v2 version applied, thanks! >> >> Thanks, but actually that should have been a fix for 3.14 with which the >> OF functionality for davinci gpio gets introduced. I assum with the >> patch in for-next, 3.14 will appear with that functionality broken and >> it will become a candidate for -stable. > > I just get the impression that DT support for DaVinci in v3.14 is so risky > and unstable that noone except those implementing it (i.e. you) is really > using it, is that correct? > > In that case it is hardly a fix that we need to rush out to the entire world.
One thing to note is that this driver is used by keystone too and all its users are DT-only. Although I do not see any in-kernel DT GPIO users even there.
I can confirm the patch does not break my gpiolib based test module (test with and without DT), but then it did not have an issue even before.
Thanks, Sekhar
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