Re: [PATCH 2/3] misc: bmp085: Add DT bindings for EOC gpio line and direct irq.

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Nov 15 2013 - 13:48:20 EST


On Friday 15 November 2013, Mark Rutland wrote:
> There's some contention over the description of gpio-based IRQs in DT.
> From the point of view of the device there is a logical IRQ output; the
> fact that this happens to be wired up to a GPIO pin that can happen to
> generate interrupts isn't anything to do with the device itself. There
> are plenty of device we have now whose interrupt lines could be wired to
> GPIOs. I see no reason to extend their bindings to support explicit
> GPIOs for IRQs, and I see no reason the driver should have to handle
> this.
>
> It would be far nicer for the device binding to just have the interrupts
> property, and for the gpio controller to act as an interrupt-controller,
> with the appropriate pin management.

Yes, agreed. I missed this point in my review: the GPIO is used only
as an interrupt pin here, so there is no reason to know the GPIO number.

Arnd
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