Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] pinctrl: Qualcomm SPMI PMIC GPIO pin controller driver

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Oct 07 2014 - 10:14:17 EST


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 24 Sep 06:09 PDT 2014, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:

>> I am unable to make this work. of_gpio_simple_xlate() didn't know that
>> GPIO range is offset with 1. Requesting last GPIO return error. And
>> debug output looks weird, for example:
>>
>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio
>> ...
>> GPIOs 220-255, platform/0.c000.gpios, 0.c000.gpios:
>> ...
>>
>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/0.c000.gpios/gpio-ranges
>> GPIO ranges handled:
>> 1: 0.c000.gpios GPIOS [221 - 256] PINS [0 - 35]
>>
>> Advice, please.
>
> Looking at of_gpio_simple_xlate() shows that you're right. It doesn't seem to
> be possible to have a gpiochip that is not 0-based. Then I guess you have to
> have your own "off-by-one-xlate".
>
> @Linus, any comments on this? All documentation states that we have
> gpio1-gpioXX in these chips, so we have to expose it as such or things will be
> messy.

I remember that drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c had the
same problem, but I don't remember how we solved it sadly :-/

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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