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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:51:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] gpio: amd-fch: add oftree probing support
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@metux.net>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:24 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<info@metux.net> wrote:

> Add support for probing via device tree.
(...)
> +       pdata->gpio_num = of_property_count_elems_of_size(dev->of_node,
> +                                                         "gpio-regs",
> +                                                         sizeof(u32));
> +       pdata->gpio_reg = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(int)*pdata->gpio_num,
> +                                      GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!pdata->gpio_reg)
> +               goto nomem;

I don't know what the idea is with this but register are not normally defined
in the DTS files. The registers are determined from the compatible value.

> +       pdata->gpio_names = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(char*)*pdata->gpio_num,
> +                                        GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!pdata->gpio_names)
> +               goto nomem;
(...)
> +       ret = of_property_read_string_array(dev->of_node, "gpio-line-names",
> +                                           pdata->gpio_names, pdata->gpio_num);

And this is already handled by the core.

Yours,
Linus Walleij