Re: [PATCH v1 4/8] gpiolib: Get rid of ARCH_NR_GPIOS

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022, at 12:52 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:55 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
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>> drivers/gpio/gpio-adp5520.c:    gc->base = pdata->gpio_start; // unused
>> drivers/gpio/gpio-adp5588.c:            gc->base = pdata->gpio_start; // unused
>> drivers/input/keyboard/adp5588-keys.c:  kpad->gc.base = gpio_data->gpio_start; // unused
>> drivers/input/keyboard/adp5589-keys.c:  kpad->gc.base = gpio_data->gpio_start; // unused
>
> I believe we should convert them to -1.

This is probably something we should do separately, but a lot of the
drivers currently don't have support for probing from DT or any other
firmware interface but rely on platform_data definitions from a
board file that was never part of the upstream kernel.

We are going to remove a lot more board files early next year,
and I was hoping to follow up with a treewide cleanup of such
drivers and remove a lot of them entirely.

>> drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c:      port->gc.base = pp->gpio_base; // from DT, deprecated
>
> From board files, since some platforms expect a fixed number for it.

>> drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c:    gc->base = chip->gpio_start; // ???? used a lot
>
> To answer this one needs to go via all board files (most of them ARM
> 32-bit based) and look, but it means almost the same case as per Intel
> above: 512-ngpios.

Right, I went through all the board files the other drivers,
this one just happens to be used more than the others:

arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da850-evm.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/vision_ep9307.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-mmp/ttc_dkb.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-pxa/cm-x300.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-pxa/spitz.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-pxa/zeus.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-pxa/zylonite_pxa300.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
arch/arm/mach-s3c/mach-crag6410.c:#include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>

The only ones that have known users though are crag6410
and vision_ep9307, the other ones will be removed.

Vision-ep9307 has 128 GPIOs total, crag6410 is complicated because it
many different GPIO controllers in various combinations.

>> drivers/pinctrl/renesas/gpio.c: gc->base = pfc->nr_gpio_pins; // ??? don't understand
>
> I think, w/o looking into the code, that this just guarantees the
> continuous numbering for all banks (chips) on the platform.

Yes, that seems to be the idea most of the pinctrl drivers.

      Arnd