On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:25 PM, jmondi <jac...@jmondi.org> wrote: > >> From my perspective these flags are configurations internal to the pin >> controller hardware used to enable/disable input buffers when a pin needs to >> perform in both direction. >> The level of detail I can provide on this is the logical diagram we have >> pointed >> you to already. >> >> As I assume you are trying to get this answer from us in order to >> avoid duplicating things in pin controller sub-system, and I >> understand this, but my question here was "can we have those flags as part >> of the pinmux property argument list, as that property description >> seems to allow us to do that, instead of making them generic pin >> configuration properties and upset other developers?" > > Pinmux with all it's magic flags baked into one is not any better > or any more readable. The solution is already very pretty except > for these two flags which I am sure we can agree on a way forward > for. > > What we choose between is not this or another less transparent > pin configuration mechanism, the mechanism (whether magic bits > to pinmux or reasonable properties) does not matter. > > There is a strong preference to use the generic bindings. > > So the discussion is whether to use: > > bi-directional; > output-enable; > > Or some already defined config flags. > > If these are too idiomatic to be used by others, they should anyways > look similar, like: > > renesas,bi-directional; > renesas,output-enable; > > Like the Qualcomm weirdness found in drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-spmi-gpio.c > > qcom,pull-up-strength = <..>; > > Check how they use > #define PMIC_GPIO_CONF_PULL_UP (PIN_CONFIG_END + 1) > > Etc. > >> Anyway, I still fail to see why those configuration flags, only >> affecting the way the pin controller hardware enables/disables >> its internal buffers and its internal operations have to be >> described in term of their externally visible electrically characteristics. > > To me internal vs external is not what matters. What matters is > if this is likely to pop up in more platforms, and then the property > should be generic. > > The generic pin config definitions are likely to be picked up by other > standards and even be inspiration to hardware engineers so that > is why it matters so much. > >> To me, what already exists are pin configuration properties generic to >> the whole pin controller subsystem, and I understand you don't want to >> see duplication there. >> >> At the same time, to me, those flags are settings the pin controller >> wants to have specified by software to overcome its hw design flaws, >> and are intended to configure its internal buffers in a way it cannot >> do by itself for some very specific operation modes (they are listed >> in the hw reference manual, it's not something you can chose to >> configure or not, if you want a pin working in i2c mode, you HAVE to >> pass those flags to pin controller). > > Sounds like a case for > > renesas,bi-directional; > renesas,output-enable; > > following the Qualcomm pattern in that case. > > But let's see if something else comes out of this discussion. >
I did not follow too much. But it seems IMX7ULP/Vybrid to be also a fan of generic output-enable/input-enable property. See: Figure 5-2. GPIO PAD in Page 241 http://www.nxp.com/assets/documents/data/en/reference-manuals/VFXXXRM.pdf It has separate register bits to control input buffer enable and output buffer enable and we need set it property for GPIO function. Regards Dong Aisheng
