Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:137:e000::1:20;
Message-ID: <3981e6e8-d4bb-b13d-7aaa-7aea83ffaad9@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:56:11 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/91.13.0
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-binding: pinctrl: Add NPCM8XX pinctrl and GPIO
 documentation
Content-Language: en-US
To:     Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc:     Avi Fishman <avifishman70@gmail.com>,
        Tali Perry <tali.perry1@gmail.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
        Patrick Venture <venture@google.com>,
        Nancy Yuen <yuenn@google.com>,
        Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@google.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
        =?UTF-8?Q?Jonathan_Neusch=c3=a4fer?= <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>,
        zhengbin13@huawei.com, OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
References: <20220714122322.63663-1-tmaimon77@gmail.com>
 <20220714122322.63663-2-tmaimon77@gmail.com>
 <20220718211046.GA3547663-robh@kernel.org>
 <CAP6Zq1hQ5m2kkQOKaYsKhPQhCW+vdsdyPRxxb_yRGMB=gJCPdw@mail.gmail.com>
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP6Zq1hQ5m2kkQOKaYsKhPQhCW+vdsdyPRxxb_yRGMB=gJCPdw@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: bulk

On 18/09/2022 20:28, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Thanks for your comment and sorry for the late reply.

Two months... we are out of the context and this will not help your
patchset.

> 
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 at 00:10, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
>>

(...)

>>> +examples:
>>> +  - |
>>> +    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
>>> +    #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
>>> +
>>> +    soc {
>>> +      #address-cells = <2>;
>>> +      #size-cells = <2>;
>>> +
>>> +      pinctrl: pinctrl@f0800000 {
>>> +        compatible = "nuvoton,npcm845-pinctrl";
>>> +        ranges = <0x0 0x0 0xf0010000 0x8000>;
>>> +        #address-cells = <1>;
>>> +        #size-cells = <1>;
>>> +        nuvoton,sysgcr = <&gcr>;
>>> +
>>> +        gpio0: gpio@f0010000 {
>>
>> gpio@0
>>
>> Is this really a child block of the pinctrl? Doesn't really look like it
>> based on addressess. Where are the pinctrl registers? In the sysgcr? If
>> so, then pinctrl should be a child of it. But that doesn't really work
>> too well with gpio child nodes...
> the pin controller mux is handled by sysgcr this is why the sysgcr in
> the mother node,
> and the pin configuration are handled by the GPIO registers.  each
> GPIO bank (child) contains 32 GPIO.
> this is why the GPIO is the child node.

Then maybe pinctrl should be the sysgcr and expose regmap for other devices?


Best regards,
Krzysztof