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

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:20 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> However the semantic is such, that it is not necessary to call
>> to_irq()
>> before using an IRQ: the irqchip and gpiochip abstractions should be
>> orthogonal.
>
> Linus,
>
> They are orthogonal. You can request an irq from the irqchip controller
> without the gpiochip, like any other irq controller.

OK good, sorry if I'm stating the obvious.

> irq_create_mapping (and irq_create_fwspec_mapping) internally calls
> irq_find_mapping. So if the mapping already exist (the irq is already
> used before calling to_irq), the existing mapping will be returned. The
> mapping will be actually created only if needed. It seems to be in line
> with your explanation, no ?

Yes, but you want to call irq_create_mapping() in slowpath (irq setup)
and irq_find_mapping() in fastpath (irq handler). Else the first IRQ
may result in unwelcomed surprises.

> There is really a *lot* of gpio drivers which use irq_create_mapping in
> the to_irq callback, are these all wrong ?

Yes they are all wrong. They should all be using irq_find_mapping().

> If this should not be used, what should we all do instead ?

Call irq_create_mapping() in some other place.

Yours,
Linus Walleij