Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: don't override irq_*_resources() callbacks

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If the driver has specified its own irq_{request/release}_resources()
>>> functions, don't override them.  The gpio-etraxfs driver will use this.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>
>>
>> Perfectly reasonable given the usecase in patch 2/2. Patch applied.
>
> So for drivers currently using GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP the calbacks were
> always overridden, even if they supplied their own?

Yeah, I guess we just assumed noone supplied their own and
expected them to be nulled out.

> Hence after this change, that's no longer the case, and pinctrl-at91.c
> will use its own, which are identical to the generic ones, modulo the bug fix
> in 5b76e79c77264899 ("gpiolib: irqchip: prevent driver unloading if gpio is
> used as irq only"). Oops...
>
> I already wrote an untested patch to convert pinctrl-at91 to the generic
> ones, shall I send that right away?

Please test it first, but yeah :)

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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