Re: [PATCH V4 04/10] dt-bindings: timestamp: Add nvidia,gpio-controller

[Dipen Patel]

On 4/4/23 3:28 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:24:17PM -0700, Dipen Patel wrote:
>> On 3/25/23 4:09 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 24/03/2023 19:51, Dipen Patel wrote:
>>>> On 3/24/23 10:13 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 06:29:23PM -0700, Dipen Patel wrote:
>>>>>> Introducing nvidia,gpio-controller property from Tegra234 SoCs onwards.
>>>>>> This is done to help below case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Without this property code would look like:
>>>>>> if (of_device_is_compatible(dev->of_node, "nvidia,tegra194-gte-aon"))
>>>>>> 	hte_dev->c = gpiochip_find("tegra194-gpio-aon",
>>>>>> 				   tegra_get_gpiochip_from_name);
>>>>>> else if (of_device_is_compatible(dev->of_node, "nvidia,tegra234-gte-aon"))
>>>>>> 	hte_dev->c = gpiochip_find("tegra234-gpio-aon",
>>>>>> 				   tegra_get_gpiochip_from_name);
>>>>>> else
>>>>>> 	return -ENODEV;
>>>>>
>>>>> Or you just put the name in match data.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure I have understood this comment, but "name" the first argument is
>>>> already there to supply to callback to match data. Also, this if else is
>>>> needed to know which "name" to provide.
>>>
>>> The point is that of_device_is_compatible() do not really scale and make
>>> code more difficult to read. Your variant-customization should in
>>> general entirely come from match/driver data.
>>
>> Perhaps I should not have mentioned driver related details here about how
>> this property will help, that detail will go in driver patch. In the next
>> patch series I will remove this commit and just focus on what this property
>> is.
> 
> I think the point that Rob and Krzysztof are trying to make that rather
> than adding a new property for this, we can add a const char *gpio field
> to struct tegra_hte_data and then set that to the compatible string of
> the GPIO controller that we need this for.

This means it will have to track the label of the gpio controller and for each
new provider, we have to touch the driver to set the char *field. Also, I think
having gpio controller property in the DT presents/describes the tegra HTE provider
perfectly as it does have hard dependency on the tegra gpio controller.

> 
> To be honest, I slightly prefer the explicit phandle reference, but it
> also complicates things a bit and looking up by compatible string isn't
> all that bad.
> 
> Thierry