[PATCH v4 6/6] gpio: uniphier: add UniPhier GPIO controller driver
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Mon Sep 11 13:15:15 PDT 2017
On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 12:14:45AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
>
> 2017-09-08 4:41 GMT+09:00 Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>:
> > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Masahiro Yamada
> > <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> >> This GPIO controller device is used on UniPhier SoCs.
> >>
> >> It also serves as an interrupt controller, but interrupt signals are
> >> just delivered to the parent irqchip without any latching or OR'ing.
> >> This is implemented by using hierarchy IRQ domain.
> >>
> >> Implementation note:
> >> Unfortunately, the IRQ mapping from this controller to the parent is
> >> random. (48, 49, ..., 63, 154, 155, ...)
> >> If "interrupts" property is used, IRQ resources may be statically
> >> allocated when platform devices are populated from DT. This can be
> >> a problem for the hierarchy IRQ domain because IRQ allocation must
> >> happen from the outer-most domain up to the root domain in order to
> >> build up the stacked IRQ. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/758)
> >> Solutions to work around it could be to hard-code parent hwirqs or
> >> to invent a driver-specific DT property.
> >>
> >> Here, the new API irq_domain_push_irq() was merged by v4.14-rc1.
> >> It allows to add irq_data to the existing hierarchy. It will help
> >> to make this driver work whether the parent has already initialized
> >> the hierarchy or not.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes in v4:
> >> - Add COMPILE_TEST and select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> >> - Reimplement irqchip part by using irq_domain_push_irq()
> >>
> >> Changes in v3:
> >> - Add .irq_set_affinity() hook
> >> - Use irq_domain_create_hierarchy() instead of legacy
> >> irq_domain_add_hierarchy()
> >>
> >> Changes in v2:
> >> - Remove +32 offset for parent interrupts to follow the GIC
> >> binding convention
> >> - Let uniphier_gpio_irq_alloc() fail if nr_irqs != 1
> >> - Allocate gpio_chip statically because just one instance is
> >> supported
> >> - Fix suspend and resume hooks
> >>
> >> .../devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-uniphier.txt | 43 ++
> >
> > What happened to my ack? One line here more that before, but I'm not
> > going to diff your patches for you.
>
> I changed the binding for this version.
> It includes a new one you have not acked yet.
>
> Maybe I was too worried about it.
Probably so, but I still don't know what you changed.
Rob
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