[PATCH 4/6] pinctrl: aramda-37xx: Add irqchip support

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Linus,
 
 On jeu., mars 23 2017, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:

>> I switched to the use of GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP however it didn't really simplify
>> my code, during the development on the v2 I did a commit only for this
>> change and here it is the diffstat:
>> 110     72      drivers/pinctrl/mvebu/pinctrl-armada-37xx.c
>>
>> In my first version I used the generic irqchip so I was able to benefit
>> of this framework, by switching to GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP I had to implement
>> again some of the functions such as .mask, .unmask an ack.
>
> I still think this is better, so thanks.

Yes, I understand that from the point of view of the gpio subsystem it
is better to share as code as possible between the driver.

>
> If you have ideas of how we could combine generic irqchip with
> GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP in an efficient manner, I'd be happy to hear
> about it? I want gpiolib core to be involved setting things like
> the .irq_request/release_resources() for example, so if you
> would proceed with this solution, I would have had you add those
> duplicating the gpiolib helpers instead.

Indeed it could be interesting to be able to combine both, however it
does not seem an easy task: at first sight both subsystem would need to
be modified. It is obviously beyond the scope of this driver, but I will
try to have a look on it to see what I could propose in a separate
series.

Gregory

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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