Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Don't allow drivers to specify a base with DT

[Alexandre Courbot]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> DT based systems should have no reason to use fixed GPIO numbers but some
> drivers that work on both DT and non-DT platforms specify them anyway. In
> order to improve robustness in cases where drivers use gpio_is_valid() to
> check for a valid GPIO on data initialized to zero as a default and avoid
> bugs due to assuptions about fixed numbers creeping in ignore any specified
> base when DT is in use.

I agree that DT users should not use the base number at all - but the
fact is some of them are doing it. Aren't we going to break some
user-space users that will expect to find a GPIO under a given number?

Also, how is this going to help with gpio_is_valid() against
zero-initialized data?

>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index 768f0831db18..11d3cf1cbca7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
>
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
>
> -       if (base < 0) {
> +       if (base < 0 || of_have_populated_dt()) {
>                 base = gpiochip_find_base(chip->ngpio);
>                 if (base < 0) {
>                         status = base;
> --
> 2.0.1
>
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