linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: qcom: spmi-gpio: Make IRQCHIP immutable

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Message-ID: <20220830084441.GB135982@thinkpad>
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:14:41 +0530
From:   Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc:     linus.walleij@...aro.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        robimarko@...il.com, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        johan+linaro@...nel.org, steev@...i.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: qcom: spmi-gpio: Make IRQCHIP immutable

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 09:26:51AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2022-08-30 09:12, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > The IRQCHIP implementation used inside the gpiochips are not supposed to
> 
> lower case
> 
> > be changed during runtime. So let's make the one inside the spmi-gpio
> > gpiochip immutable.
> > 
> > This fixes the below warning during boot:
> > gpio gpiochip0: (c440000.spmi:pmic@0:gpio@...0): not an immutable
> > chip, please consider fixing it!
> > 
> > Separate callbacks need to be provided for irq_{mask/unmask} pointers
> > since
> > the callbacks are supposed to mask/unmask the corresponding parent IRQ
> > in
> > addition to changing the gpio_desc flags.
> 
> This is all part of the existing documentation, so I don't think
> this is really needed.
> 

Yes it is documented, but developers usually refer the commits doing the similar
thing while doing these kind of conversions. For them, this text serves as a
quick documentation.

So I prefer to keep it in the commit message.

Thanks,
Mani

> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
> 
> With the above fixed:
> 
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> 
>         M.
> -- 
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