Re: RFC: gpio: mmio: add support for 3 direction regs

[Fried, Ramon]

On 1/3/2019 10:59, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> On 01/03/2019 10:51 AM, Fried, Ramon wrote:
>> On 1/3/2019 10:07, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>>> Hi Ramon,
>>>
>>> On 01/03/2019 09:36 AM, Fried, Ramon wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a driver for STA2X11 GPIO controller who seems to fit
>>>> best to the generic mmio driver,
>>> I hope you have seen the existing driver drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c
>> I surely did. we have the same IP in our soc but it was changed a lot
>> internally, don't want to litter the original.
>>>> the only problem I have is with the dir register case. The STA2X11
>>>> has 3 registers for dir, one for data, one for set and one for
>>>> clear. The generic-mmio driver has support for this fashion for the
>>>> dat & set & clear registers but not for dirout/dirin registers.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if support for this is generic enough to deserve a patch, if
>>>> so I'm willing to quickly add this support, if not, adding a flag
>>>> such as below, will allow partly using the generic mmio driver only
>>>> for set/get and the direction can be handled outside the driver.
>>>>
>>> If gpio-mmio fits well, then it might be simpler to set a flag
>>> BGPIOF_UNREADABLE_REG_DIR, then call bgpio_init() and then overwrite
>>> .direction_input, .direction_output and .get_direction callbacks,
>>> as a reference you can take a look at gpio-74xx-mmio.c
>> Nice.
>> That's an option I didn't think of, better than setting the flag.
>> what about adding the generic support ?
> Setting a GPIO direction over three different registers doesn't sound
> as a suitable candidate for generalization, also your particular
> implementation is partial, relies on external platform/driver code
> to preset the directions and it does not allow to change direction
> in runtime, so just renounce the idea.

Alrighty then, will overwrite the direction CBs.

Thanks.

>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Vladimir