Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: dts: at91: add pincontrol node for USB Host

[Ludovic Desroches]

Hi Cristi,

Adding the gpio list.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:00:16PM +0200, cristian.birsan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Cristian Birsan <cristian.birsan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The pincontrol node is needed for USB Host since Linux v5.7-rc1. Without
> it the driver probes but VBus is not powered because of wrong pincontrol
> configuration. The patch was tested on SAM9x60EK, SAMA5D4-EK and SAMA5D3-EK. 
> 

No problem on my side with this set of patches, it's consistent with what we
have.
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I just want to share the full picture leading to this situation. You told me the
breakage appears after this commit:

commit 2ab73c6d8323fa1eb02c16c07c40ba2ed17da729
Author: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Mar 19 13:27:29 2020 +0100

    gpio: Support GPIO controllers without pin-ranges

    Wake gpiochip_generic_request() call into the pinctrl helpers only if a
    GPIO controller had any pin-ranges assigned to it. This allows a driver
    to unconditionally use this helper if it supports multiple devices of
    which only a subset have pin-ranges assigned to them.

    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319122737.3063291-2-thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx
    Tested-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

We were used to defining pinctrl for all our pins. That is somewhat redundant
when the pin is requested through the gpiolib.

The pinctrl-at91 driver doesn't register any pin range. After this commit, the
gpio_generic_request() fails. The consequence is if we forgot to define the
pinctrl, the pin won't be muxed as a gpio.

At first glance, there is no trivial way to register the pin range in the
pinctrl-at91 driver. There is one driver for the pinctrl and one for the gpio.
I am open to suggestions to fix it in the pinctrl-at91 driver as well if there
is an elegant way (I have some in mind, but there are not) without having to
refactor the driver.

Regards

Ludovic


> Cristian Birsan (3):
>   ARM: dts: sam9x60: add pincontrol for USB Host
>   ARM: dts: at91: sama5d4_xplained: add pincontrol for USB Host
>   ARM: dts: at91: sama5d3_xplained: add pincontrol for USB Host
> 
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sam9x60ek.dts        | 9 +++++++++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d3_xplained.dts | 7 +++++++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-sama5d4_xplained.dts | 7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
> 
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