[PATCH] RFC: interrupt consistency check for OF GPIO IRQs

Alexander Holler holler at ahsoftware.de
Fri Aug 2 11:35:38 EDT 2013


Am 02.08.2013 11:57, schrieb Alexander Holler:

> There must have been a bug in the patch too. I've also added that
> iinterrupt-parent stuff (with the same flags as used by the driver) and
> just have let the driver call
> 
> request_threaded_irq(gpio_to_irq(gpio), flags);
> 
> without the gpio_request()/input() before. And request_threaded_irq()

Not to forget that it would/will be a big problem, if you will forbid
drivers to use gpio_request() when they use the gpio as irq (as it
was/is necessary now).

With my kernel 3.10.4 with some patches on top, I see
# git grep gpio_to_irq | wc -l
678

So there are a lot of places where

gpio_request();
gpio_direction_input()
request_irq();

would have been changed to

#ifdef CONFIG_OF_GPIO
gpio_request();
gpio_direction_input()
#endif
request_irq();

to not fail during runtime (hopefully with some descriptive error
message if it fails).

Regards,

Alexander Holler




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