Re: [RFT PATCH] spi: bcm2835: reduce the abuse of the GPIO API

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Aug 31 2023 - 19:25:10 EST


On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 09:49:34PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the bcm2835 SPI driver uses functions meant for GPIO providers
> exclusively to locate the GPIO chip it gets its CS pins from and request
> the relevant pin. I don't know the background and what bug forced this.

...

> /*
> + * TODO: The code below is a slightly better alternative to the utter
> + * abuse of the GPIO API that I found here before. It creates a
> + * temporary lookup table, assigns it to the SPI device, gets the GPIO
> + * descriptor and then releases the lookup table.
> *
> + * Still the real problem is unsolved. Looks like the cs_gpiods table
> + * is not assigned correctly from DT?
> */

I'm not sure why this quirk is here. AFAIR the SPI CS quirks are located in
gpiolib-of.c.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko