linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: sch: Add interrupt support

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Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:06:15 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Cc:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: sch: Add interrupt support

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:39:35PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 24.04.19 12:33, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:19:02PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:

> > > And even if that were possible, we would be back to the square of existing
> > > devices without those definitions. If this were a recent chipset, I would
> > > say, "go, fix future firmware versions". But this one is legacy.
> > 
> > Is it fixing some real issue with these legacy platforms? I mean without
> > the patch some GPE event is not handled properly? It was not clear to me
> > from the commit message.
> > 
> 
> Without that patch, you are forced to poll for event changes in your
> application, timer-driven. There are application that cannot process these
> GPIOs because they lack such logic (mraa with node-red-node-intel-gpio is a
> public example).

Just a side note: MRAA is a hack itself. It abuses almost all interfaces Linux
kernel provides.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko