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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:38:48 +0200
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] pinctrl: sunxi: Implement proper irq DT parsing
Hi,
On 20-07-15 14:41, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So far the GPIO and pinctrl driver had a limited support for
> interrupts, and no documentation about the DT bindings. A few DT ended
> up using these external interrupts, relying on the default DT parsing
> logic.
>
> However, this doesn't really work, since there's still no
> documentation describing the expected behaviour, and we ended up with
> bindings different if you want to use a GPIO as interrupt (using the
> gpios property), or an interrupt over a GPIO (using the interrupts
> property) that doesn't really make sense and only brings confusion.
>
> Moreover, the "new" SoCs from Allwinner have multiple interrupt banks,
> while the previous generation had only one, which means that we cannot
> really express those interrupts with the default bindings anymore
> either.
>
> The point of this serie is to fix the current situation by introducing
> some custom DT parsing code to have a consistant binding with the GPIO
> one, which will also fix the multiple banks issues, and document it.
>
> Let me know what you think,
> Maxime
Series looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Regards,
Hans
>
> Maxime Ripard (4):
> pinctrl: sunxi: Use common functions to change irq_chip and handler
> pinctrl: sunxi: Add irq_chip name
> pinctrl: sunxi: Add custom irq_domain_ops
> ARM: sunxi: dt: Convert users to the PIO interrupts binding
>
> .../bindings/pinctrl/allwinner,sunxi-pinctrl.txt | 37 ++++++++++++++-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi | 3 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i-a13-utoo-p66.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun5i.dtsi | 3 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31.dtsi | 3 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-cubietruck.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-i12-tvbox.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi | 3 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-a33.dtsi | 3 +-
> drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++-----
> 10 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
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