[PATCH 4/9] pinctrl: meson: allow gpio to request irq

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com> wrote:

> Add the ability for gpio to request irq from the gpio interrupt controller
> if present. We have to specificaly that the parent interrupt controller is
> the gpio interrupt controller because gpio on meson SoCs can't generate
> interrupt directly on the GIC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com>
(...)
> +       select IRQ_DOMAIN
>         select OF_GPIO
> +       select OF_IRQ
(...)
> +static int meson_gpio_to_hwirq(struct meson_bank *bank, unsigned int offset)
> +{
> +       unsigned int hwirq;
> +
> +       if (bank->irq_first < 0)
> +               /* this bank cannot generate irqs */
> +               return -1;
> +
> +       hwirq = offset - bank->first + bank->irq_first;
> +
> +       if (hwirq > bank->irq_last)
> +               /* this pin cannot generate irqs */
> +               return -1;
> +
> +       return hwirq;
> +}

This is reimplementing irqdomain.

> +static int meson_gpio_to_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
> +{
(...)
> +       hwirq = meson_gpio_to_hwirq(bank, offset);
> +       if (hwirq < 0) {
> +               dev_dbg(pc->dev, "no interrupt for pin %u\n", offset);
> +               return 0;
> +       }

Isn't this usecase (also as described in the cover letter) a textbook
example of when you should be using hierarchical irqdomain?

Please check with Marc et al on hierarchical irqdomains.

Yours,
Linus Walleij