Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] [RFC] gpio: pca953x: hack to map LEVEL irqs to EDGE irqs (may loose interrupts/hang)

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:00 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> in driver code. Therefore, the pca953x driver rejects the
> setup of the irq because it can only handle EDGE interrupts
> so far.
>
> This hack translates level interrupts to edge interrupts
> for the pca953x chips. This is enough for initial testing,
> but not a good solution since interrupts may be lost.
>
> If for example the connected chip requests a IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW
> this may have the reason that there may be multiple different
> interrupt sources in the chip - wired-or together to the
> input of the pca953x. Now if we do edge detecion only,
> the first interrupt will generate an EDGE_FALLING, but a
> second one won't ever if the first interrupt wasn't already
> processed.
>
> IMHO a better solution would be to make the pca953x interrupt
> handler check if the irq input is still in the active
> level and run the device specific handler again.

What I thought about is to enable such exclusively for "L" variants of
the chips and check latched values.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko