Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] gpio: Add support for hierarchical IRQ domains

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:58:02PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 9:53 AM Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Me
> 
> > > Please drop this. The default .to_irq() should be good for everyone.
> > > Also patch 2/2 now contains a identical copy of the gpiolib
> > > .to_irq() which I suspect you indended to drop, actually.
> >
> > It's not actually identical to the gpiolib implementation. There's still
> > the conversion to the non-linear DT representation for GPIO specifiers
> > from the linear GPIO number space, which is not taken care of by the
> > gpiolib variant. That's precisely the point why this patch makes it
> > possible to let the driver override things.
> 
> OK something is off here, because the purpose of the irqdomain
> is exactly to translate between different number spaces, so it should
> not happen in the .to_irq() function at all.
> 
> Irqdomain uses .map() in the old variant and .translate() in the
> hierarchical variant to do this, so something is skewed.
> 
> All .to_irq() should ever do is just call the irqdomain to do the
> translation, no other logic (unless I am mistaken) so we should
> be able to keep the simple .to_irq() logic inside gpiolib.

Well, that's exactly the problem that I'm trying to solve. The problem
is that .translate() translates from the DT number space to the GPIO or
IRQ number space. However, since gpiochip_to_irq() now wants to call the
irq_create_fwspec_mapping() interface, it must convert from the offset
(in GPIO space) into the DT number space, which is what that function
expects.

Thierry

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