[PATCH 0/1] fix MVEBU GPIO driver bug causing kernel hang

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Gerlando Falauto,

On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:14:28 +0200, Gerlando Falauto wrote:

> > Hum? The driver you're touching is a GPIO driver, while
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-orion.c is an interrupt controller driver. The
> > gpio-mvebu driver can be used on all mvebu platforms that are DT
> > capable, but the main interrupt controller is different from one
> > platform to another: we already have irq-armada-370-xp.c for Armada
> > 370/XP, while Sebastian's irq-orion.c is for older families of SoCs.
> 
> My foreword was "if I understand correctly", which I clearly didn't. ;-)
> 
> OK, so Sebastian's rework irq-orion.c is about the MAIN interrupt 
> controller (replaces arch/arm/plat-orion/irq.c), which also cascades 
> interrupts from GPIOs.
> These are then either handled by gpio-mvebu.c (for all platforms which 
> are DT capable) or by arch/arm/plat-orion/gpio.c (legacy).
> Is that right?

Yes, that's right.

Thomas
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