Re: [PATCH] gpio: support for Synopsys DesignWare APB GPIO

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 04:22:44PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 08:47:25AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> wrote:
> > > My first idea would be to have something like:
> > >
> > > struct mmio_gpio_bank {
> > >        unsigned int            ngpio;
> > >        unsigned long           set_offs;
> > >        unsigned long           clr_offs;
> > >        unsigned long           dout_offs;
> > >        unsigned long           din_offs;
> > >        unsigned long           dir_offs;
> > > };
> > >
> > > struct mmio_gpio_pdata {
> > >        size_t                  bus_width_bits;
> > >        int                     gpio_base;
> > >        unsigned int            nr_banks;
> > >        struct mmio_gpio_bank   banks[];
> > > };
> > 
> > As discussed earlier in the thread, you probably don't need to support
> > multiple banks with this driver.  Instead, create a separate device
> > instance for each bank.
> 
> The reason I proposed this was for controllers where the registers 
> aren't grouped together for each bank.  For example, the Synopsys block 
> has:
> 
> 	0x00-0x08 bank A control registers
> 	0x0c-0x14 bank B control registers
> 	...
> 	0x50	  bank A input register
> 	0x54	  bank B input register.
> 
> So when you mentioned before using a single register resource with 
> offsets I understood it to be something like what I've proposed 
> otherwise multiple banks would have overlapping resources (or the 
> resource would just be used to indicate the start address rather than 
> start + end).

That may be a problem for request_mem_region() which would indeed
prevent the driver from specifying the full register range with
offsets inside it.  I suspect that the platform_bus_type will inhibit
two platform_devices with overlapping regions from getting registered.
Fair enough, that is a pretty strong argument for Anton's model.  I
don't think it would be a good idea to try and work around it by
making the resource only include the start address.

It does mean some gymnastics for a device tree binding to figure out
which registers are present, but the appropriate behaviour could be
selected by a set of compatible values for each kind of register
interface.

> 
> Also, it's not clear here but this would create one gpio_chip per bank.

And that's bad why?  :-)

g.