Re: [PATCH v5 06/11] gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device

From: Michael Walle
Date: Tue Mar 25 2025 - 04:06:59 EST


Hi,

> > > Also, what is the advantage of this? Your caller doesn't have to
> > > call devm_regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode(), but on the flip side you
> > > have to cram all its parameters in the gpio_regmap config. I'd like
> > > to keep that small and simple (but still extensible!). IMHO just
> > > setting the irq_domain is enough to achieve that.
> >
> > This was a request from Andy on my previous series.
>
> The benefit is deduplication of a lot of code. You may consider it the same as
> GPIO library does with IRQ chip. This is just the same on a different level.

I'd say "a lot of code" is slightly exaggerated :-) I was hesitant
because it sounded like a one-off for the regmap_irq support. There
could theoretically be other irq_domain providers (I think).

I just had a quick look at all the gpio_regmap drivers and they all
use regmap_irq. So maybe it's fair to say that one could be directly
supported within gpio_regmap.

> Besides the driver in this series, I would think of other GPIO drivers that
> are not (yet) converted to regmap (partially because of this is being absent)
> or existing drivers, if any, that may utilise it.

Yes probably all of the existing ones :)

-michael

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