Re: gpio-pxa: getting GPIOs by devicetree phandle broken

[Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>]

Tyler Hall <tylerwhall@gmail.com> writes:

>> The issue with multiple gpiochips per of-node could be worked around as followed I believe, comments?
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
>> index 08261f2..43984ab 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
>> @@ -47,11 +47,12 @@ static int of_gpiochip_find_and_xlate(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data)
>>         ret = gc->of_xlate(gc, &gg_data->gpiospec, gg_data->flags);
>>         if (ret < 0) {
>>                 /* We've found the gpio chip, but the translation failed.
>> -                * Return true to stop looking and return the translation
>> -                * error via out_gpio
>> +                * Store translation error in out_gpio.
>> +                * Return false to keep looking, as more than one GPIO chip
>> +                * could be registered per of-node.
>>                  */
>>                 gg_data->out_gpio = ERR_PTR(ret);
>> -               return true;
>> +               return false;
>>          }
>>
>>         gg_data->out_gpio = gpiochip_get_desc(gc, ret);
>
> As long as we're ok with multiple gpiochips per of-node, this would
> work for me. It'll change the preference of which chip returns the
> error in the case of multiple chips, but that's already undefined
> behavior.

Looks good to me too, this will solve my issue, and the global behavior would be
consistent with the former one.

Would you care submitting a proper patch so that we can apply our Reviewed-by,
Tested-by etc ... ?

Cheers.

-- 
Robert