Re: [PATCH 07/21] gpiolib: provide gpio_device_get_base()

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 9:17 AM Linus Walleij <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 8:53 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
> >
> > Let's start adding getters for the opaque struct gpio_device. Start with
> > a function allowing to retrieve the base GPIO number.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
>
> I guess you have a solid usecase for drivers needing to do this
> crazy thing, because I suppose you feel as much as me that
> this should rather be gpiolib-internal and confined to
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h?
>
> If you add a valid reason for making this globally visible outside
> of drivers/[gpio|pinctrl] to the commit message I guess I can live
> with it because we need to think of the bigger picture:
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
>
> It brings to mind the now confusing "base" inside of
> struct gpio_chip. We all know it should go away, but since it
> is never used during the lifetime of the gpio_chip - or SHOULD
> never be used - it should rather be an argument to
> [devm_]gpiochip_add_data( .... int base);...
>
> Maybe something we should add to our TODO file.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

For this series it's the HTE driver that uses it and I don't have a
good idea about how to change it. Dipen?

I would also love to make pinctrl not use the internal GPIOLIB header
so it'll be another user, unless you can figure out a way to not use
gc->base? :)

I think we're stuck with it for now.

Bart