Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 2/2] i2c: i2c-mux-gpio: Enable this driver in ACPI land

From: Evan Green
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 13:59:58 EST


On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 7:24 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 1:40 AM Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Enable i2c-mux-gpio devices to be defined via ACPI. The idle-state
> > property translates directly to a fwnode_property_*() call. The child
> > reg property translates naturally into _ADR in ACPI.
> >
> > The i2c-parent binding is a relic from the days when the bindings
> > dictated that all direct children of an I2C controller had to be I2C
> > devices. These days that's no longer required. The i2c-mux can sit as a
> > direct child of its parent controller, which is where it makes the most
> > sense from a hardware description perspective. For the ACPI
> > implementation we'll assume that's always how the i2c-mux-gpio is
> > instantiated.
>
> ...
>
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> > +
> > +static int i2c_mux_gpio_get_acpi_adr(struct device *dev,
> > + struct fwnode_handle *fwdev,
> > + unsigned int *adr)
> > +
> > +{
> > + unsigned long long adr64;
> > + acpi_status status;
> > +
> > + status = acpi_evaluate_integer(ACPI_HANDLE_FWNODE(fwdev),
> > + METHOD_NAME__ADR,
> > + NULL, &adr64);
> > +
> > + if (!ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) {
> > + dev_err(dev, "Cannot get address\n");
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > +
> > + *adr = adr64;
> > + if (*adr != adr64) {
> > + dev_err(dev, "Address out of range\n");
> > + return -ERANGE;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#else
> > +
> > +static int i2c_mux_gpio_get_acpi_adr(struct device *dev,
> > + struct fwnode_handle *fwdev,
> > + unsigned int *adr)
> > +{
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#endif
>
> I'm wondering if you may use acpi_find_child_device() here.
> Or is it a complementary function?

I think it's complementary. The code above is "I have a device, I want
its _ADR". whereas acpi_find_child_device() is "I have an _ADR, I want
its device". I could flip things around to use this, but it would turn
the code from linear into quadratic. I'd have to scan each possible
address and call acpi_find_child_device() with that _ADR to see if
there's a child device there.

>
> ...
>
> > + device_for_each_child_node(dev, child) {
> > + if (is_of_node(child)) {
> > + fwnode_property_read_u32(child, "reg", values + i);
> > +
> > + } else if (is_acpi_node(child)) {
> > + rc = i2c_mux_gpio_get_acpi_adr(dev, child, values + i);
> > + if (rc)
> > + return rc;
> > + }
> > +
> > i++;
> > }
>
> And for this I already told in two different threads with similar code
> that perhaps we need common helper that will check reg followed by
> _ADR.

Oh, I'm not aware of those threads. I'd need some advice: I guess a
new fwnode_* API would make sense for this, but I had trouble coming
up with a generic interface. _ADR is just a blobbo 64 bit int, but
DT's "reg" is a little more flexible, having a length, and potentially
being an array. I suppose it would have to be something like:

int fwnode_property_read_reg(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
size_t index, uint64_t *addr, uint64_t *len);

But then ACPI would always return 0 for length, and only index 0 would
ever work? I'm worried I'm designing an API that's only useful to me.

I tried to look around for other examples of this specific pattern of
_ADR then "reg", but struggled to turn up much.
-Evan

>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko