Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] gnss: add new GNSS subsystem

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 31.05.2018 um 13:47 schrieb Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:52:18AM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 31.05.2018 um 10:52 schrieb Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 07:38:22AM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:32:34PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>>>> Another possible extension is to add generic 1PPS support.
>>>> 
>>>> There are two possibilities to consider.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. If the PPS causes an interrupt, then it should hook into the PPS
>>>>  subsystem.
>>> 
>>> Registering a PPS child device is what I had in mind for this.
>> 
>> This seems to be duplicating functionality that is already solved by
>> 
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc7/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pps/pps-gpio.txt
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc7/source/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c
>> 
>> Or what is bad with just using that?
> 
> Using pps-gpio would not allow you to describe the hardware properly,
> something which, for example, may be needed for power management (e.g.
> to power on the GNSS receiver when the pps device is being accessed).

Yes, that is indeed a very valid reason to do it that way as the pps-gpio
seems to assume an always-on impulse source.

On the other hand it looks as if the pps framework can't tell the
source when to power on/off because it does not notify when it
is being accessed or not:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc7/source/drivers/pps/pps.c#L305

BR,
Nikolaus