Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] fbtft: Rectify GPIO handling

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 03:31:16PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The infamous commit c440eee1a7a1 ("Staging: fbtft: Switch to
> the GPIO descriptor interface") broke GPIO handling completely.
> It has already four commits to rectify and it seems not enough.
> In order to fix the mess here we:
> 
>   1) Set default to "inactive" for all requested pins
> 
>   2) Fix CS, RD, and WR pins polarity since it's active low and
>      GPIO descriptor interface takes it into consideration from
>      the Device Tree or ACPI
> 
>   3) Fix RESET pin polarity in the places missed by the commit
>      b918d1c27066 ("Staging: fbtft: Fix reset assertion when using gpio descriptor")
> 
>   4) Consolidate chip activation (CS assert) under default
>      ->reset() callback
> 
> To summarize the expectations about polarity for GPIOs:
> 
>    #RD			Low
>    #WR			Low
>    #CS			Low
>    #RESET		Low
>    DC or RS		High
>    RW			High
>    Data	0..15		High
> 
> See also Adafruit learning course [1] for the example of the schematics.
> 
> While at it, drop unneeded NULL checks, since GPIO API is tolerant to that.
> At the end, update TODO to mark this job eventually done.
> 
> [1]: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-2-8-and-3-2-color-tft-touchscreen-breakout-v2/downloads

Shouldn't this be broken up into "one patch per thing" from your list
above?  Feels like you did a lot of different things all in the same
patch :(

thanks,

greg k-h