Re: [PATCH 1/1] pinctrl: sunxi: add GPIO get_direction callback

From: Andre Przywara

Date: Wed Feb 11 2026 - 04:08:56 EST


Hi James,

On 2/11/26 04:32, James Hilliard wrote:
Implement sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_get_direction() and wire it into
the sunxi gpio_chip setup.

thanks for taking care and sending a patch! I am still scratching my head what this warning is about exactly and why we only see this now? I never saw this, so what caused that? libgpiod accesses from userland?

Regardless, can we hold back this patch, please? As part of the A733 pinctrl support (and as LinusW asked kindly about that) I was reworking our driver to use the generic gpio interface, and I have a feeling this would solve this problem automatically?
The actual pinctrl conversion is done, I just need to plug in the IRQ support. I ideally would have something in the next days to post, would that be worth waiting for?

Cheers,
Andre




The new callback reads the pin mux register and compares the mux
value against the pin descriptor gpio_in and gpio_out functions
to report GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN or GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_OUT.
If the pin is muxed to irq, report it as input.

Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
index 0fb057a07dcc..424f23be27b2 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c
@@ -995,6 +995,37 @@ static int sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_direction_output(struct gpio_chip *chip,
chip->base + offset, false);
}
+static int sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_get_direction(struct gpio_chip *chip,
+ unsigned int offset)
+{
+ struct sunxi_pinctrl *pctl = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
+ struct sunxi_desc_function *in, *out, *irq;
+ u32 reg, shift, mask, val;
+ u16 pin = chip->base + offset;
+
+ in = sunxi_pinctrl_desc_find_function_by_pin(pctl, pin, "gpio_in");
+ out = sunxi_pinctrl_desc_find_function_by_pin(pctl, pin, "gpio_out");
+ if (!in || !out)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ irq = sunxi_pinctrl_desc_find_function_by_pin(pctl, pin, "irq");
+
+ sunxi_mux_reg(pctl, offset, &reg, &shift, &mask);
+ val = (readl(pctl->membase + reg) & mask) >> shift;
+
+ if (val == in->muxval)
+ return GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN;
+
+ if (val == out->muxval)
+ return GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_OUT;
+
+ /* IRQ function is effectively input. */
+ if (irq && val == irq->muxval)
+ return GPIO_LINE_DIRECTION_IN;
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
static int sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_of_xlate(struct gpio_chip *gc,
const struct of_phandle_args *gpiospec,
u32 *flags)
@@ -1603,6 +1634,7 @@ int sunxi_pinctrl_init_with_flags(struct platform_device *pdev,
pctl->chip->set_config = gpiochip_generic_config;
pctl->chip->direction_input = sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_direction_input;
pctl->chip->direction_output = sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_direction_output;
+ pctl->chip->get_direction = sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_get_direction;
pctl->chip->get = sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_get;
pctl->chip->set = sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_set;
pctl->chip->of_xlate = sunxi_pinctrl_gpio_of_xlate;