Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpio / ACPI: Add knowledge about pin controllers to acpi_get_gpiod()

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The GPIO resources (GpioIo/GpioInt) used in ACPI contain a GPIO number
> which is relative to the hardware GPIO controller. Typically this number
> can be translated directly to Linux GPIO number because the mapping is
> pretty much 1:1.
>
> However, when the GPIO driver is using pins exported by a pin controller
> driver via set of GPIO ranges, the mapping might not be 1:1 anymore and
> direct translation does not work.
>
> In such cases we need to translate the ACPI GPIO number to be suitable for
> the GPIO controller driver in question by checking all the pin controller
> GPIO ranges under the given device and using those to get the proper GPIO
> number.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not sure what this patch does so I try to rely on you guys here.
I would strongly like to have Rafael's ACK before proceeding.

Trying to get the GPIO offsets to map 1:1 to Linux GPIO numbers
is something that should be avoided since we want to get rid of the
GPIO number space altogether. GPIO chips should try to register
with .base = -1 so that the gpiolib just assigns some random GPIO
numbers to the lines.

What does actually exist?

- GPIO offsets for a certain gpio_chip 0..N
- Pin offsets for a certain pin controller 0..N

GPIO ranges are for translating between these two.

But I have a vague idea that there is something like a numberspace
concept inside ACPI as well, and that is all magic to me...
mixing that into this is a bit scary to me.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_PINCTRL
> +/**
> + * acpi_gpiochip_pin_to_gpio_offset() - translates ACPI GPIO to Linux GPIO
> + * @chip: GPIO chip
> + * @pin: ACPI GPIO pin number from GpioIo/GpioInt resource

So I guess I'm curious about this Gpiolo/GpioInt resource number space...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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