Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: dts: omap5: Update GPIO with address space and interrupts

[Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>]

Hi Seb,

On 10/23/2012 03:37 AM, Sebastien Guiriec wrote:
> Add base address and interrupt line inside Device Tree data for
> OMAP5
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastien Guiriec <s-guiriec@ti.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/omap5.dtsi |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap5.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap5.dtsi
> index 42c78be..9e39f9f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap5.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap5.dtsi
> @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@
>  
>  		gpio1: gpio@4ae10000 {
>  			compatible = "ti,omap4-gpio";
> +			reg = <0x4ae10000 0x200>;
> +			interrupts = <0 29 0x4>;
>  			ti,hwmods = "gpio1";
>  			gpio-controller;
>  			#gpio-cells = <2>;

I am wondering if we should add the "interrupt-parent" property to add
nodes in the device-tree source. I know that today the interrupt-parent
is being defined globally, but when device-tree maps an interrupt for a
device it searches for the interrupt-parent starting the current device
node.

So in other words, for gpio1 it will search the gpio1 binding for
"interrupt-parent" and if not found move up a level and search again. It
will keep doing this until it finds the "interrupt-parent".

Therefore, I believe it will improve search time and hence, boot time if
we have interrupt-parent defined in each node.

Cheers
Jon