[PATCH 2/3] drm/sitronix/st7571-i2c: Make the reset GPIO to be optional

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> writes:

> Hi
>
> Am 10.07.25 um 12:24 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
>> Some Sitronix LCD controllers (such as the ST7567) don't have a reset pin,
>> so lets relax this in the driver and make the reset GPIO to be optional.
>>
>> The devm_gpiod_get_optional() helper is similar to devm_gpiod_get(), but
>> returns NULL when there isn't a reset-gpios property defined in a DT node.
>>
>> The DT binding schema for "sitronix,st7571" that require a reset GPIO will
>> enforce the "reset-gpios" to be present, due being a required DT property.
>> But in the driver itself the property can be made optional if not defined.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/sitronix/st7571-i2c.c | 8 ++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sitronix/st7571-i2c.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sitronix/st7571-i2c.c
>> index eec846892962..73e8db25f895 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sitronix/st7571-i2c.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sitronix/st7571-i2c.c
>> @@ -802,15 +802,19 @@ static int st7571_parse_dt(struct st7571_device *st7571)
>>   	st7571->nlines = dt.vactive.typ;
>>   	st7571->ncols = dt.hactive.typ;
>>   
>> -	st7571->reset = devm_gpiod_get(dev, "reset", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
>> +	st7571->reset = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "reset", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
>>   	if (IS_ERR(st7571->reset))
>> -		return PTR_ERR(st7571->reset);
>> +		return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(st7571->reset),
>> +				     "Failed to get reset gpio\n");
>
> There's struct st7571_panel_data. It could store a flag signalling the 
> expected behavior.
>

Indeed.

> With more effort the panel_data could store a dedicated parse_dt pointer 
> for each panel type. ASAICT the st7567 features a subset of the other 
> type. So there might not be much code duplication.
>

This is a good idea too. I think that will do that for v2.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
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