linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/18] mfd: stpmic1: Fix swapped mask/unmask in irq chip

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:58:41 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To:     Aidan MacDonald <aidanmacdonald.0x0@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] mfd: stpmic1: Fix swapped mask/unmask in irq chip

On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, Aidan MacDonald wrote:

> The usual behavior of mask registers is writing a '1' bit to
> disable (mask) an interrupt; similarly, writing a '1' bit to
> an unmask register enables (unmasks) an interrupt.
> 
> Due to a longstanding issue in regmap-irq, mask and unmask
> registers were inverted when both kinds of registers were
> present on the same chip, ie. regmap-irq actually wrote '1's
> to the mask register to enable an IRQ and '1's to the unmask
> register to disable an IRQ.
> 
> This was fixed by commit e8ffb12e7f06 ("regmap-irq: Fix
> inverted handling of unmask registers") but the fix is opt-in
> via mask_unmask_non_inverted = true because it requires manual
> changes for each affected driver. The new behavior will become
> the default once all drivers have been updated.
> 
> The STPMIC1 has a normal mask register with separate set and
> clear registers. The driver intends to use the set & clear
> registers with regmap-irq and has compensated for regmap-irq's
> inverted behavior, and should currently be working properly.
> Thus, swap mask_base and unmask_base, and opt in to the new
> non-inverted behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aidan MacDonald <aidanmacdonald.0x0@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/stpmic1.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]