[PATCH v5 1/6] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Export bridge GPIOs to Linux

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:35 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:

> The ti-sn65dsi86 MIPI DSI to eDP bridge chip has 4 pins on it that can
> be used as GPIOs in a system.  Each pin can be configured as input,
> output, or a special function for the bridge chip.  These are:
> - GPIO1: SUSPEND Input
> - GPIO2: DSIA VSYNC
> - GPIO3: DSIA HSYNC or VSYNC
> - GPIO4: PWM
>
> Let's expose these pins as GPIOs.  A few notes:
> - Access to ti-sn65dsi86 is via i2c so we set "can_sleep".
> - These pins can't be configured for IRQ.
> - There are no programmable pulls or other fancy features.
> - Keeping the bridge chip powered might be expensive.  The driver is
>   setup such that if all used GPIOs are only inputs we'll power the
>   bridge chip on just long enough to read the GPIO and then power it
>   off again.  Setting a GPIO as output will keep the bridge powered.
> - If someone releases a GPIO we'll implicitly switch it to an input so
>   we no longer need to keep the bridge powered for it.
>
> Because of all of the above limitations we just need to implement a
> bare-bones GPIO driver.  The device tree bindings already account for
> this device being a GPIO controller so we only need the driver changes
> for it.
>
> NOTE: Despite the fact that these pins are nominally muxable I don't
> believe it makes sense to expose them through the pinctrl interface as
> well as the GPIO interface.  The special functions are things that the
> bridge chip driver itself would care about and it can just configure
> the pins as needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>

Looks good mostly!

> +       pdata->gchip.label = dev_name(pdata->dev);
> +       pdata->gchip.parent = pdata->dev;
> +       pdata->gchip.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> +       pdata->gchip.of_xlate = tn_sn_bridge_of_xlate;
> +       pdata->gchip.of_gpio_n_cells = 2;
> +       pdata->gchip.free = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_free;
> +       pdata->gchip.get_direction = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_get_direction;
> +       pdata->gchip.direction_input = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_direction_input;
> +       pdata->gchip.direction_output = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_direction_output;
> +       pdata->gchip.get = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_get;
> +       pdata->gchip.set = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_set;
> +       pdata->gchip.can_sleep = true;
> +       pdata->gchip.names = ti_sn_bridge_gpio_names;
> +       pdata->gchip.ngpio = SN_NUM_GPIOS;

Please add:
pdata->gchip.base = -1;

So it is clear that you use dynamically assigned GPIO numbers,
with that:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij