dts: question about how to configure PIO used as i2c irq
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Oct 15 01:57:20 EDT 2012
On 10:53 Mon 15 Oct , Bo Shen wrote:
> Hi All,
> When moving atmel qt1070 linux driver with DT support. The atmel
> qt1070 is an I2C device. I meet the following questions.
>
> The qt1070 DT node
> --<--------------
> qt1070: keyboard at 1b {
> compatible = "atmel,qt1070";
> reg = <0x1b>;
> interrupt-parent = <&pioA>;
> interrupts = <7 0x0>;
> };
> -->--------------
>
> DT will parse this node and map irq, the i2c_client->irq. This can
> be used directly in atmel qt1070 driver. However, the PIO which used
> as irq need configure as a PIO input. Now, we can not use
> irq_to_gpio() function to convert irq to gpio. So, if we can not
> configure this gpio.
>
> If we configure the pio in board-dt.c, I think this is not a good
> place. For example, if the kernel image support multiplatform, while
> on these platform, using different pio for qt1070, so this will
> cause only one platform can use qt1070.
>
> So, for this question, how should I solve it? Would you please
> give me some advice?
I already reply you in private 4 times
you have only 2 choice pass the gpio and manage in c
or configure the gpio as input in the xlate or map of the gpio drivers and the
mux via pinctrl
Best Regards,
J.
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