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 10:30 AM, Uwe Kleine-KÃnig
<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-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?
>
> 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 ;-)

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

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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