Re: [RFC PATCH] i2c: core: dont change pinmux state to GPIO during recovery setup

[Robert Marko]

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 1:49 PM Robert Marko <robert.marko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ever since PXA I2C driver was moved to the generic I2C recovery, I2C has
> stopped working completely on Armada 3720 if the pins are specified in DTS.
>
> After a while it was traced down to the only difference being that PXA
> driver did not change the pinmux state to GPIO before trying to acquire the
> GPIO pins.
> And indeed as soon as this call is removed I2C starts working.
>
> To me it seems that this call is not required at all as devm_gpiod_get()
> will result in the pinmux state being changed to GPIO via the pinmux
> set_mux() op.
>
> Fixes: 0b01392c18b9 ("i2c: pxa: move to generic GPIO recovery")
> Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I am aware this probably isnt the correct fix, so I am sending it as RFC
> cause I have ran out of ideas.

CC-ing Russel as well since I forgot him.

Regards,
Robert
>
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> index 60746652fd52..b34d939078a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> @@ -359,13 +359,6 @@ static int i2c_gpio_init_generic_recovery(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>         if (bri->recover_bus && bri->recover_bus != i2c_generic_scl_recovery)
>                 return 0;
>
> -       /*
> -        * pins might be taken as GPIO, so we should inform pinctrl about
> -        * this and move the state to GPIO
> -        */
> -       if (bri->pinctrl)
> -               pinctrl_select_state(bri->pinctrl, bri->pins_gpio);
> -
>         /*
>          * if there is incomplete or no recovery information, see if generic
>          * GPIO recovery is available
> --
> 2.41.0
>


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Robert Marko
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