gpio-mt7621 offset fix for 5.10 kernel series

[Rosen Penev]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 3:50 PM Peter Naulls <peter at chocky.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/22 17:10, Lukas Zeller wrote:
> .
> >
> > Just not any more - the mt7621 had this too. I currently patch it back into
> > 22.03's gpio-mt7621.c for my builds and set base in the DTS, see [3]
> >
> > I can follow the rationale to get rid of legacy GPIOs, but in the context
> > of experimenting platforms, where GPIOs are a thing to work with in
> > user space, there's just no real replacement yet (see details in [1],[2]).
>
> Yes, I see.
>
> I have a mix of C and scripted GPIO access in my setup, and certainly I can
> move to libgpiod for that - or just just access them as files with
> named GPIOs as setup per the DTS.
Let's CC Sergio, who upstreamed this driver.
>
> I do see the GPIO shell examples in the OpenWrt wiki, but the code needs
> more work to deal with multiple banks, and it just makes figuring out
> the GPIO number to use more clunky without any good cause.
>
> Now, the numbered GPIOs really are just for debug in my system, the
> actual code will use the named ones, but still.
>
> Is the long-term intent for shell scripting to instead use the libgpiod
> tools?
>
> https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/hardware/port.gpio
>
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