Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] dt-bindings: net: bluetooth: Add qualcomm-bluetooth

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 02:46:45PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:07:44PM +0100, Thierry Escande wrote:
> > > > BT_DISABLE_N is the name of this pin in the datasheet of the QCA chip,
> > > > not on the board, so this name is the same regardless of what you name
> > > > the line or gpio your board connect it to.
> > > 
> > > and QCA chip v1 and QCA chip v2 will use the same driver and
> > > same firmware loading mechanism. So why do we have to add a new
> > > GPIO naming if they decide to change the name in the data sheet.
> > > With Bluetooth it is pretty much all the same. Every UART chip
> > > has a shutdown/reset GPIO to enable/disable the chip behind the
> > > UART.
> > > 
> > > > > A new board should not require driver changes, you just ship a new DT
> > > > > for that board and an existing driver hopefully just does the job. No
> > > > > matter how someone named a GPIO in a piece of paper.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I totally agree with the fact that the board should not affect the
> > > > naming of the gpio in the driver. But I do enjoy when we refer to pins
> > > > by their real name - instead of having to guess which pin in the _chip_
> > > > specification the driver actually refer to.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > That said, what name would you prefer for this?
> > > > 
> > > > Afaict this is not "wakeup" and there are a few extra steps between the
> > > > disabled state and "bluetooth is enabled", so "enable" feels slightly
> > > > wrong. And it probably should be "bluetooth" and not just "device" as
> > > > this refers to a pin on a WiFi/BT combo chip.
> > > 
> > > The Broadcom side called it shutdown GPIO, it is essentially the
> > > shutdown/reset GPIO or power on/off GPIO. Personally I do not
> > > care what it is named, but it will be all the same for all
> > > Bluetooth chips. Take a poll from Broadcom, Intel, Realtek and
> > > Qualcomm and you can pick a reasonable common name.
> > 
> > The Nokia driver has "bluetooth-wakeup" gpio. The Broadcom one has
> > "device-wakeup" and "shutdown". The "shutdown" gpio is set to its active
> > state to power on the chip which sounds reversed logic. Same for the
> > "bt-disable-n" gpio in the Qualcomm driver, configured as ACTIVE_HIGH, and
> > which is set to 1 to enable it...
> >
> > So for consistency, naming it as "shutdown" to stick to the bcm driver but
> > it should be configured as ACTIVE_LOW in the dts so we actually do a
> > gpiod_set_value(0) to un-shutdown it. Does that sound ok?
> 
> FWIW you picked the wrong gpio from the nokia bluetooth binding. The
> gpio for shutdown would be "reset". The "bluetooth-wakeup" is
> required for normal operation to exit idle mode. The "reset" name
> used by the nokia binding is quite common for DT:
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings $ git grep reset-gpios | wc -l
> 212
> 
> I guess it only makes sense when the device is actually being
> reset, though (i.e. for Nokia the settings are back to defaults
> and you need to re-upload the FW).

The standardish names are reset-gpios, enable-gpios, and powerdown-gpios. 
Pick one or some of those.

Rob