linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: mcp23s08: Allocate irq

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZFFu=wgHw0BqXUHiC5euGwWuYbr5bH60zDvFr+q394=w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:19:49 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Lars Poeschel <poeschel@...onage.de>
Cc:     "open list:PIN CONTROL SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: mcp23s08: Allocate irq_chip dynamic

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 4:16 PM Lars Poeschel <poeschel@...onage.de> wrote:

> Keeping the irq_chip definition static shares it with multiple instances
> of the mcp23s08 gpiochip in the system. This is bad and now we get this
> warning from gpiolib core:
>
> "detected irqchip that is shared with multiple gpiochips: please fix the
> driver."
>
> Hence, move the irq_chip definition from being driver static into the
> struct mcp23s08. So a unique irq_chip is used for each gpiochip
> instance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@...onage.de>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij