Q: how to access the MPC5200B's timer gipo's?

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress at arcor.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a (probably dumb) question regarding the access to the MPC5200B's timer gpio's.  I added e.g.
>
> timer at 640 {     // General Purpose Timer 4
>        compatible = "fsl,mpc5200b-gpt","fsl,mpc5200-gpt";
>        reg = <0x640 0x10>;
>        interrupts = <1 13 0>;
>        interrupt-parent = <&mpc5200_pic>;
>        gpio-controller;
>        #gpio-cells = <2>;
> };
>
> in the DTS file to several timers.  Several gpiochipxxx folders are now present in /sys/class/gpio/.
>
> In my code, I grab the node by calling of_find_node_by_path("/soc5200 at f0000000/timer at 640"), which returns the proper node.  Then I try to get the gpio number (for a call to gpio_set_value()) by calling of_get_gpio(node, 0) with the node found above.  However, this call always dumps
>
> of_get_gpio_flags: can't parse gpios property
> of_get_gpio_flags exited with status -2
>
> What would be the proper way to determine the gpio number for a timer's gpio pin from the node name or path?

The existing API (of_get_gpio()) doesn't operate on gpio-controller
nodes.  It operates on a node that uses the gpio (has a 'gpios'
property as documented in
Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/gpio/gpio.txt).

Therefore, you need a node to describe the *user* of the GPIO pin, and
call of_get_gpio() on that.  If you want to resolve the GPIO number
from the timer node itself, then you'll need to refactor the API a bit
to expose what you want.  Nobody has asked to do it that way until
now.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.