linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc: tps65910: Use platform_get

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:24:22 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>
CC:	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"a.zummo@...ertech.it" <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"rtc-linux@...glegroups.com" <rtc-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: tps65910: Use platform_get_irq to get RTC irq details

On 09/24/2012 12:18 AM, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Warren [mailto:swarren@...dotorg.org]
>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:21 PM
>> To: Venu Byravarasu
>> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org; a.zummo@...ertech.it; linux-
>> kernel@...r.kernel.org; rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: tps65910: Use platform_get_irq to get RTC irq
>> details
>>
>> On 09/21/2012 05:00 AM, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
>>> As RTC driver needs only irq number from platform data,
>>> using platform_get_irq(), instead of generic dev_get_platdata().
>>
>> I assume this patch depends on "mfd: tps65910: Add alarm interrupt of
>> TPS65910 RTC to mfd device list" which you posted just before? If so,
>> the two patches should go through the same tree to avoid "git bisect"
>> issues.
>>
>> Also, I thought you needed to fix the MFD driver to call
>> mfd_add_devices() only after all the IRQ stuff had been set up -
>> otherwise, when the RTC driver calls devm_request_threaded_irq(), the
>> parent IRQ domain that the IRQ points at won't exist, and the call will
>> fail.
> 
> No, I do not agree completely here.
> Current patch just changes the way to get irq info in the RTC driver.
> If proper irq number is passed from MFD, then it proceeds further and deals with it.
> In case of missing valid irq info, this returns error as in earlier case.
> 
> I agree with you that this patch alone cannot make RTC completely functional,
> till we get mfd patch as well.
> 
> However should lack of mfd changes really block this patch, as these two are
> independent  drivers.

OK, if this feature (either the RTC as a whole, or the RTC driver
retrieving and using the interrupt) doesn't already work, then as you
say there are no dependencies, so this is fine.
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