Re: [LINUX PATCH V3 5/9] gpio: gpio-xilinx: Add interrupt support

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Nov 17 2020 - 19:16:07 EST


Hi Srinivas!

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:12 PM Srinivas Neeli
<srinivas.neeli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Adds interrupt support to the Xilinx GPIO driver so that rising and
> falling edge line events can be supported. Since interrupt support is
> an optional feature in the Xilinx IP, the driver continues to support
> devices which have no interrupt provided.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@xxxxxxxxxx>

(...)
> config GPIO_XILINX
> tristate "Xilinx GPIO support"
> + select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
> + depends on OF_GPIO
> help
> Say yes here to support the Xilinx FPGA GPIO device

Please add:
select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY

Because your driver requires this.

> + /* Update cells with gpio-cells value */
> + if (of_property_read_u32(np, "#gpio-cells", &cells))
> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Missing gpio-cells property\n");
(...)
> + chip->gc.of_gpio_n_cells = cells;

Why is this necessary?
Mention in the commit.

Other than that this looks very good and good use
of the hierarchical IRQ feature in gpiolib!

Yours,
Linus Walleij