Re: [PATCH v6 04/10] regulator: fixed: add support for ACPI interface

[Lu Baolu]

Hi,

On 04/27/2016 08:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:54:10AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>
>> Please refer to Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt.
> That's not visibly what your driver is doing, that is also recommending
> using a static name which is what I'm asking for.

Yes, I agree that we should use a static name.

>
>>> Why does the device care?It's requesting the GPIO in
>>> its own context and it's only requesting one GPIO, with DT we're just
>>> always calling the GPIO "gpio" which works fine.
>> This driver is not bound to an ACPI device node directly. It's a child
>> of a mfd device, which is corresponding to a real ACPI device node.
> If it's the child of a MFD it's got an ACPI device, the ACPI device is
> the parent.It should use the parent device or the parent should map
> the GPIO through to the child as many other MFDs do, the whole concept
> of a MFD is a Linux internal implementation detail.

Yes. The mapping of GPIO is done in the parent. And the parent
passes the GPIO by setting ACPI companion to this device (done
in mfd internal). This driver is able to get the gpio descriptor with
a static name.

How about below code?

+       gpiod = gpiod_get(dev, "vbus_en", GPIOD_ASIS);
+       if (IS_ERR(gpiod))
+               return PTR_ERR(gpiod);
+
+       config->gpio = desc_to_gpio(gpiod);
+       config->enable_high = device_property_read_bool(dev,
+                                                       "enable-active-high");
+       gpiod_put(gpiod);

Best regards,
Lu Baolu