Re: [PATCH 3/4] gpio: palmas: Add support for Palams GPIO

[Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>]

On Thursday 10 January 2013 04:27 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>> Add gpio driver for TI Palmas series PMIC. This has 8 gpio which can
>> work as input/output.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
> This driver seems unnecessary. Can't you just use
> drivers/gpio/gpio-generic.c ?
The gpio-generic driver is for the MMIO based interface. This is for the 
PMIC-Palma which is in i2c interface and so need to have register access 
through the i2c call exposed by palma mfd driver.



>
>> +static int palmas_gpio_to_irq(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned offset)
>> +{
>> +       struct palmas_gpio *pg = to_palmas_gpio(gc);
>> +       struct palmas *palmas = pg->palmas;
>> +
>> +       return palmas_irq_get_virq(palmas, PALMAS_GPIO_0_IRQ + offset);
>> +}
> Why are you implementing this for a driver which does not even expose
> the ability to trigger IRQs? If it's supposed to support IRQs it should
> register a struct irq_chip.

The interrupts are registered in mfd core via the regmap-irq_chip.
This api converts the gpio number to corresponding irq.