[PATCH RFC 0/9] gpio: make irq_chip immutable

[Andy Shevchenko]

Fri, May 09, 2025 at 12:45:31PM +0800, Peng Fan (OSS) kirjoitti:
> This might be a bit late to post this patchset, since it is almost rc6,
> but no rush here. Not expect this patchset be in 6.16.

Why not? These are mostly trivial ones and they fix the warning, they may
potentially be the fixes between -rc1 and -rc2,

> This is an effort to make irq_chip immutable to elimnate the kernel
> warning "not an immutable chip, please consider fixing!"

> The major changes 
> - add "gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq)" to end of mask hook
> - add "gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq)" to start of unmask hook
> - add IMMUTABLE flag
> - add GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS

No need to list the implementation details of IMMUTABLE flag. Just a summary
line is enough.

> For davinci, two patches are made, 1st is to update irq chip data, 2nd
> make irq_chip immutable.
> For xgene-sb, two functions are added, because previous driver directly
> use irq_chip_unmask_parent and irq_chip_mask_parent.
> 
> In some patches, I use irqd_to_hwirq(d) to get hwirq; in others, I
> direclty use d->hwirq to align with previous code.
> 
> Some Kconfig entries do not select GPILIB_IRQCHIP, but I tried
> to build pxa_defconfig lpc18xx_defconfig and multi_v7_defconfig,
> GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP is y.
> Not sure we should select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP for them, because if
> deselect GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP, there will be build failure.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko