[PATCH 2/2] Make non-linear GPIO ranges accesible from gpiolib

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:

> When I pushed for the concept of groups, I intended it to mean precisely
> one single thing. The points below describe this.
>
> 1) A pin is a single pin/ball/pad on the package.
>
> 2) Some register fields affect just a single pin. For example, there may
> be a register field that affects pin A8's mux setting only.
>
> 3) Some register fields affect multiple pins at once. For example,
> perhaps one register field affects both pin A8's an pin A7's mux setting
> at once.
>
> 4) Depending on HW design, all register fields might be of type
> described at (2) above, or all of the type described at (3) above, or a
> mixture of both. Tegra is a mixture.
>
> 5) I expect the concept of a pin group to solely represent the various
> groups of pins affected by each register field; in (2) above one pin per
> group, in (3) above many pins per group.
>
> Thus, to my mind, a pin group is purely a HW concept, and dictated
> purely by HW design.

This we can discuss perpetually it seems.

For Nomadik, as I've pointed out in the past it is actually:

(6): it is one register/set if bits per pin, BUT the register settings
 pertain to physical lines having electrical settings which postulate
 that they be handled in batch or wreak havoc.

I.e. it is a HW limitation in the *silicon* of *all* implementations,
but that is *not* expressed in the register map.

For the practical consequences see __nmk_config_pins if (glitch)
runpath. Handling this as a group makes perfect sense from
a hardware point of view.

Yours,
Linus Walleij