[PATCH] mfd: stmpe: Pull IRQ GPIO number from DT during DT-based probe

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Mon Jan 7 13:19:10 EST 2013


On 7 January 2013 20:43, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>> > The new
>> > behaviour is the expected one and copies the behavior of
>> > platform_data-based probe.
>>
>> Blindly copying platform data behaviour to DT bindings is seldom a good
>> idea.
>
> Do you have suggestions how to pass these information? I suspect the irq-over-
> gpio property can be killed, since if irq-gpios prop is there, it implies irq-
> over-gpio anyway.

Both can be killed. gpios as interrupt lines can be requested as:

 interrupt-parent = <&gpio-controller>;
 interrupts = <25 0x1>;

and probably the stmpe driver doesn't have to bother at all if
interrupt was over gpio
or not.



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