linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/15] ARM: sunxi: add A31 PL pins support

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:16:11 +0200
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Cc:	Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] ARM: sunxi: add A31 PL pins support

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 01:14:26AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >  3) other things I haven't noticed yet :-)
> 
> Reworking EINT to use one interrupt per bank will yield some more surprises.
> 
> There's also new gpiolib irqchip helpers, but that will require reworking
> each pin bank into separate gpio chips. May be more work than just adding
> different irq domains for different banks.
> 
> See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/25/175

I'm not sure it's worth it actually. Using these helpers will probably
simplify the A31/A23 case, where you have one interrupt controller per
bank, but it will be much more complicated to handle the A10/A20 case
where you have a single interrupt controller for all the banks.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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