Re: [PATCH 4/4] tty/serial: sh-sci: remove uneeded IS_ERR_OR_NULL calls

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Uwe,

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Uwe Kleine-KÃnig
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:49:39AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > Given that mctrl-gpio can be useful on legacy platforms, a device could
>> > silently run without cts-gpio even there.
>>
>> On platforms were CONFIG_GPIOLIB=n, this is not true, so the issue is moot.
>>
>> All serial drivers using (optional) mctrl-gpio have this in Kconfig:
>>
>>     select SERIAL_MCTRL_GPIO if GPIOLIB
>>
>> So they will use mctrl-gpio when GPIOLIB is enabled.
>> If GPIOPLIB is disabled, no flow control GPIOs are expected, and the
>> driver should not break that case.
>
> So it all boils down to the question: Is GPIOLIB=n enough to assume no
> gpio is needed?
>
> I'd say it is not.

How does the platform register these GPIOs when GPIOPLIB is not enabled by
the platform, and gpiod_add_lookup_table() is thus not available?

Please show me an example.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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