Re: [PATCH 00/16] gpio: Tight IRQ chip integration and banked infrastructure

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 08:06:42 EST


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On omaps, each bank is a separate driver instance with it's own
> interrupt. Maybe really all we need to do is get rid of the "bank"
> naming, I think that's left over from 15 years ago when we did not
> have separate driver instances. It seems we should s/bank/ddata/
> on the driver to avoid confusion.

OK sorry maybe OMAP is not a target for this, I just thought so
since it was one of the platforms that is patches in the patch
series.

But I'm pretty sure we have chips with banking like this: separate
interrupts but a single device. I would have to read through them
all I guess.

Yours,
Linus Walleij