Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpio: dwapb: Convert driver to using the GPIO-lib-based IRQ-chip

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 09:40:15 EST


Hi Serge,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 3:39 AM Serge Semin
<Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> GPIO-lib provides a ready-to-use interface to initialize an IRQ-chip on
> top of a GPIO chip. It's better from maintainability and readability
> point of view to use one instead of supporting a hand-written Generic
> IRQ-chip-based implementation. Moreover the new implementation won't
> cause much functional overhead but will provide a cleaner driver code.
> All of that makes the DW APB GPIO driver conversion pretty much justified
> especially seeing a tendency of the other GPIO drivers getting converted
> too.

Needless to say I am a big fan of this patch. It's what I wanted to
do with the driver but was afraid to dry-code.

Please look into the minor nits pointed out by Andy and respin,
I really want to apply this patch set.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij