Re: [PATCH v1 6/7] mfd: lpc_ich: Add support for pinctrl in non-ACPI system

[Henning Schild]

Am Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:59:05 +0300
schrieb Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 06:40:01PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> > Tan or Andy,
> > 
> > maybe you can point me to a user of that patch. I guess there might
> > be an out-of-tree driver or userland code on how to use the GPIOs
> > from there.  
> 
> I'm confused. User of this patch is pinctrl-broxton driver.
> It's in upstream.

Should this appear in /sys/class/gpio as chip so that pins can be
exported?

That is what i tried and failed with.

> Using GPIOs from it is something as done in a few drivers already
> (Assuming we have no resources described in the ACPI). I.e. you need
> to register in board file the GPIO mapping table with help of
> devm_acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() and use one of gpiod_get() family of
> functions to request it.
> 
> In case of LEDs you simple describe GPIO device name in lookup table
> and that's it. The drivers/platform/x86/pcengines-apuv2.c not the
> best but will give you an idea how to use "leds-gpio" driver in board
> files.

I am aware of that driver and had a look at it. In order to figure out
the arguments for the macros/functions i was hoping for userland gpio
"export", but maybe that does not work here ...
For now i will assume that it does not show up in sysfs and can maybe
still be used, and try to build on top.

regards,
Henning

> 
> > Feel free to send directly to me in case it is not published
> > anywhere and should not yet be on the list, i could just use it for
> > inspiration. A driver will likely be GPL anyways.  
>