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how to describe a peripheral with power enable pin

Rafael Dias
 

Hi!
I'm starting with ZephyrProject and I'm playing with the development kit slstk3401a.

After implementing a very basic blinky app, I decided to use the si7021 sensor present at the board. I wrote an .overlay file with the definition of an I2C bus that is connected to the sensor but I'd like  also to define the GPIO that enables/disables the sensor operation. Bellow I share the circuit connection:

slstk3401a_tempsensor.png
And here is my overlay:

/ {
};

&i2c0 {
        status = "okay";
        si7021@40{
                compatible = "silabs,si7006";
                reg = <0x40>;
                label = "Si7021";
                status = "okay";
        };
};

Well, I don't know how to define the SENSOR_ENABLE pin at device three. I tried everything:
  • include a section called "resources": 
/ {
	resources {
		power_en {
			status = "okay";
			compatible = "gpio-leds";
			Si7021_power: Si7021_pwd0 {
				gpios = <&gpiod 9 0>;
				label = "Si7021_pwr";
			};
		};
	};
};

  • include the section "resources" without "power_en":
/ {
	resources {
		status = "okay";
		compatible = "gpio-leds";
		Si7021_power: Si7021_pwd0 {
			gpios = <&gpiod 9 0>;
			label = "Si7021_pwr";
		};
	};
};

With these nodes, my firmware compiles, but when I call the function device_get_binding , I get a NULL return.

I solved this by the following code: 
	const struct device* gpiod = device_get_binding( DT_LABEL( DT_NODELABEL( gpiod ) ) );
	if (NULL == gpiod )
	{
		printf( "Could not get gpiod port\n" );
		return;
	}	rc = gpio_pin_configure(gpiod, 9, GPIO_OUTPUT_ACTIVE | GPIO_OUTPUT_INIT_HIGH );
	if (rc < 0) {
		printk("Failed to configure gpio pin\n");
		return;
	}

I don't know, but I think that it isn't the beautiful way to do this.

Does anyone have advice on how to do this?

best regards,

--
Rafael Dias Menezes
tel.: +436507008854
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