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

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Cc += LinusW

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:53:27AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:09:50AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Uwe Kleine-König
> >> <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?
> >
> > Obviously the platformcode cannot. In this case you could argue that
> > platformcode shouldn't register the device if a gpio is necessary. But
> > this reasoning doesn't work for (DT=y || ACPI=y) && GPIOLIB=n.
> >
> > I wouldn't want to code this in each driver (something like:
> >
> >         if (IS_ENABLED(GPIOLIB) || device_is_instantiated_by_dt(dev) || device_is_instantiated_by_acpi(dev))
> >                 gpios = mctrl_gpio_init(...);
> >         else
> >                 gpios = NULL;
> >
> > ). Putting this into GPIOLIB is the right approach, and so this is
> > another argument for HALFGPIOLIB. This would fix mctrl_gpio_init en
> > passant.
> 
> Do we have platforms where DT=y || ACPI=y, but GPIOLIB=n?
> Ah, x86 ;-)

Yeah, and I think rm -r arch/x86 won't be acceptable :-) I assume you
can also configure some arm or powerpc systems without GPIOLIB.

> Anyway, for sh-sci.c, platforms either have DT and GPIOLIB, or they do not
> need mctrl-gpio.

So we're in agreement now that HALFGPIOLIB is the way to go?
Linus, what do you think?

Best regards
Uwe

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