Re: [RFC v2] gpio/omap: auto-setup a GPIO when used as an IRQ

[George Cherian]

On 9/27/2013 1:05 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 09/27/2013 01:18 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 09/24/2013 01:58 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> > > The OMAP GPIO controller HW requires a pin to be configured in GPIO
> > > input mode in order to operate as an interrupt input. Since drivers
> > > should not be aware of whether an interrupt pin is also a GPIO or not,
> > > the HW should be fully configured/enabled as an IRQ if a driver solely
> > > uses IRQ APIs such as request_irq(), and never calls any GPIO-related
> > > APIs. As such, add the missing HW setup to the OMAP GPIO controller's
> > > irq_chip driver.
> > >
> > > Since this bypasses the GPIO subsystem we have to ensure that another
> > > caller won't be able to request the same GPIO pin that is used as an
> > > IRQ and set its direction as output. Requesting the GPIO and setting
> > > its direction as input is allowed though.
> > FWIW, the concept of this patch,
> > Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I didn't review the code; just skimmed it to see where the new
> > functionality was implemented.
> Thanks Stephen,
>
> I split the changes as suggested by Tony and posted as a patch-set and not an
> RFC anymore:
>
> [PATCH 1/2] gpio/omap: maintain GPIO and IRQ usage separately [1]
> [PATCH 2/2] gpio/omap: auto-setup a GPIO when used as an IRQ [2]
>
> Linus,
>
> Could you please add Stephen Acked-by when taking the patches and also George
> Cherian Tested-by that sent for this RFC. George it would be great if you can
> also comment on which OMAP platform you had tested.

Tested on dra7xx/evm with GPIO interrupt for pcf gpio expander.
Tested-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@xxxxxx>
> I cc'ed Aaro Koskinen and Paul Walmsley now which seems to have OMAP1 platforms
> to test. Could you please test [1] and [2] on a OMAP1 board? These patches
> solves a long standing issue we have on OMAP2+ when booting with DT and it would
> be great if you can check that it does not cause regressions on OMAP1 based boards.
>
> Thanks a lot and best regards,
> Javier
>
> [1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2937351/
> [2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2937371/
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