Re: [PATCH 2/3] MFD: twl6040: Allocate IRQ numbers dynamically

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 03:33:51PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 03:17 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The latter, and also just any driver that delivers an interrupt via a
> > GPIO on OMAP - if the GPIO IRQ numbers are all dynamically allocated
> > then it gets hard to register an off-chip device and tell it which
> > interrupt to request.

> For GPIO IRQ there's the gpio_to_irq() call which returns the mapped IRQ
> number for the given GPIO.

This doesn't really work for board files, though - you can only call
gpio_to_irq() at runtime so if you're statically registering the devices
on the board you'd need to make the structures non-const, manage to find
the GPIO controller at runtime then do the lookup, update the struct and
finally register the device.

> If there is "irq expander" type of chip I assume it would have similar
> way to get the IRQ number based on either GPIO number or some other
> enumeration value.

No, there's no generic interface for this.

> The twl6040 does not have such a feature. The interrupts are generated
> internally and it has one IRQ line towards the host. We have nested
> interrupts for the childs (plug detect is handled by ASoC codec, Vibra
> overcurrent is handled by the vibra driver, etc).

OK, that's fine then - you should put this in the changelog to make it
clear that there are no external users who could be affected.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature