linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] pinctrl: meson: allow gpio to request irq

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdYUVXny57AC9rKX3VRAyooEk_2XLvqe9jOuT3rOaE75rg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:14:35 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
Cc:     Carlo Caione <carlo@...one.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        "open list:ARM/Amlogic Meson..." <linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] pinctrl: meson: allow gpio to request irq

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com> wrote:

>> Isn't this usecase (also as described in the cover letter) a textbook
>> example of when you should be using hierarchical irqdomain?
>>
>> Please check with Marc et al on hierarchical irqdomains.
>
> Linus,
> Do you mean I should create a new hierarchical irqdomains in each of
> the two pinctrl instances we have in these SoC, these domains being
> stacked on the one I just added for controller in irqchip ?
>
> I did not understand this is what you meant when I asked you the
> question at ELCE.

Honestly, I do not understand when and where to properly use
hierarchical irqdomain, even after Marc's talk at ELC-E.

Which is problematic since quite a few GPIO drivers now
need to use them.

I will review his slides, in the meantime I would say: whatever
Marc ACKs is fine with me. I trust this guy 100%. So I guess I
could ask that he ACK the entire chain of patches
from GIC->specialchip->GPIO.

Yours,
Linus Walleij