Re: [PATCH v1] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for "gpio" and "gpios" binding

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Tue Jan 19 2021 - 14:02:22 EST


On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:20:24AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 9:50 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Can we pull this into driver-core-next please? It fixes issues on some
> > > boards with fw_devlink=on.
> >
> > On r8a77951-salvator-xs.dts, it introduces one more failure:
> >
> > OF: /soc/i2c@e66d8000/gpio@20/pcie-sata-switch-hog: could not get
> > #gpio-cells for /cpus/cpu@102
> >
> > Seems like it doesn't parse gpios properties in GPIO hogs correctly.
>
> Could it be that the code assumes no self-referencing phandles?
> (Just guessing...)

Well, since this is scanning the DT and creating device links between
producers and consumers, there's really no point in handling self-
references, so I think that's fine.

However, what this probably should do is skip the node if it's marked
as a GPIO hog to avoid the error message.

Thierry

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