Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] gpio: aggregator: expose custom line names to forwarder gpio_chip

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Feb 12 2025 - 09:45:08 EST


Hi Den-san,

Thanks for your patch!

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 04:12, Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Previously, GPIO lines in the aggregator had empty names. Now that the

That is only true for aggregators created through the sysfs interface,
right? When created from DT, gpio-line-names is already supported:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13.2/source/Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-aggregator.rst#L72

> configfs interface supports custom names, update the GPIO forwarder to
> use them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c
> @@ -425,6 +425,20 @@ static int gpiochip_fwd_setup_delay_line(struct device *dev, struct gpio_chip *c
> }
> #endif /* !CONFIG_OF_GPIO */
>
> +static int gpiochip_fwd_line_names(struct device *dev, const char **names, int len)
> +{
> + int num = device_property_string_array_count(dev, "gpio-line-names");
> + if (!num)
> + return 0;
> + if (num > len) {
> + pr_warn("gpio-line-names contains %d lines while %d expected",
> + num, len);
> + num = len;
> + }
> + return device_property_read_string_array(dev, "gpio-line-names",
> + names, num);
> +}
> +
> /**
> * gpiochip_fwd_create() - Create a new GPIO forwarder
> * @dev: Parent device pointer
> @@ -447,6 +461,7 @@ static struct gpiochip_fwd *gpiochip_fwd_create(struct device *dev,
> {
> const char *label = dev_name(dev);
> struct gpiochip_fwd *fwd;
> + const char **line_names;
> struct gpio_chip *chip;
> unsigned int i;
> int error;
> @@ -458,6 +473,16 @@ static struct gpiochip_fwd *gpiochip_fwd_create(struct device *dev,
>
> chip = &fwd->chip;
>
> + if (!dev_of_node(dev)) {
> + line_names = devm_kcalloc(dev, sizeof(*line_names), ngpios, GFP_KERNEL);

So this is always allocated, even when no names are specified?

> + if (!line_names)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> + error = gpiochip_fwd_line_names(dev, line_names, ngpios);
> + if (error < 0)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + }
> +
> /*
> * If any of the GPIO lines are sleeping, then the entire forwarder
> * will be sleeping.
> @@ -491,6 +516,9 @@ static struct gpiochip_fwd *gpiochip_fwd_create(struct device *dev,
> chip->ngpio = ngpios;
> fwd->descs = descs;
>
> + if (!dev_of_node(dev))
> + chip->names = line_names;
> +

Do you actually need to collect the names yourself?
Below, the driver does:

error = devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, chip, fwd);

and gpiochip_add_data_with_key() already calls gpiochip_set_names()
to retrieve the names from the gpio-line-names property.
What is missing to make that work?

> if (chip->can_sleep)
> mutex_init(&fwd->mlock);
> else
> @@ -530,10 +558,40 @@ to_gpio_aggregator_line(struct config_item *item)
> return container_of(group, struct gpio_aggregator_line, group);
> }
>
> +static struct fwnode_handle *aggr_make_device_swnode(struct gpio_aggregator *aggr)
> +{
> + char **line_names __free(kfree) = NULL;

const (needed when gpio_aggregator_line.name becomes const)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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