linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wlcore/wl18xx: Add invert-irq OF property for physically inverted IRQ

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:06:45 +0530
From:   Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@...tor.com>
To:     Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
CC:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, Eyal Reizer <eyalr@...com>,
        Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Spyridon Papageorgiou <spapageorgiou@...adit-jv.com>,
        Joshua Frkuska <joshua_frkuska@...tor.com>,
        "George G . Davis" <george_davis@...tor.com>,
        Andrey Gusakov <andrey.gusakov@...entembedded.com>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wlcore/wl18xx: Add invert-irq OF property for physically
 inverted IRQ


On 12/06/19 8:36 PM, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Thanks for your comment.
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:00:41AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> [..]
>>>> We already have plenty of that in the tree, the canonical example
>>>> probably being drivers/irqchip/irq-mtk-sysirq.c. It should be pretty
>>>> easy to turn this driver into something more generic.
>>> I don't think drivers/irqchip/irq-mtk-sysirq.c can serve the
>>> use-case/purpose of this patch. The MTK driver seems to be dealing with
>>> the polarity inversion of on-SoC interrupts which are routed to GiC,
>>> whereas in this patch we are talking about an off-chip interrupt
>>> wired to R-Car GPIO controller.
>> And how different is that? The location of the interrupt source is
>> pretty irrelevant here.
> The main difference which I sense is that a driver like irq-mtk-sysirq
> mostly (if not exclusively) deals with internal kernel implementation
> detail (tuned via DT) whilst adding an inverter for GPIO IRQs raises
> a whole bunch of new questions (e.g. how to arbitrate between
> kernel-space and user-space IRQ polarity configuration?).
>
>> The point is that there is already a general
>> scheme to deal with these "signal altering widgets", and that we
>> should try to reuse at least the concept, if not the code.
> Since Harish Jenny K N might be working on a new driver doing GPIO IRQ
> inversion, I have CC-ed him as well to avoid any overlapping work.


Sorry I am not completely aware of the background discussion.

But here is the link to my proposal for new consumer driver to provide a new virtual
gpio controller to configure the polarity of the gpio pins used by the userspace.

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-gpio/msg39681.html


>
>>> It looks to me that the nice DTS sketch shared by Linus Walleij in [5]
>>> might come closer to the concept proposed by Geert? FWIW, the
>>> infrastructure/implementation to make this possible is still not
>>> ready.
>> Which looks like what I'm suggesting.
> Then we are on the same page. Thanks.
>
>> 	M.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.