RE: [PATCH 1/3] irq: If an IRQ is a GPIO, request and configure it

Stephen Warren
2011-09-02T15:34:43Z

Stephen Warren wrote at Friday, September 02, 2011 9:25 AM:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote at Friday, September 02, 2011 2:37 AM:
> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >
> > > Many IRQs are associated with GPIO pins. When the pin is used as an IRQ,
> > > it can't be used as anything else; it should be requested. Enhance the
> > > core interrupt code to call gpio_request() and gpio_direction_input() for
> > > any IRQ that is also a GPIO. This prevents duplication of these calls in
> > > each driver that uses an IRQ.
> >
> > This is very much the wrong approach. If you think it through then the
> > irq setup code might end up with tons of other subsystem specific
> > setup thingies, e.g. PCI .....
> >
> > The right thing to do is to add a irq_configure() function pointer to
> > the irq chip and provide a common function for gpios in gpiolib, which
> > is then used by the particular GPIO irq chip implementation.
>
> Sorry, could you expand on this some more.

Uggh. Sorry; just ignore this response; I got it confused with the responses
to my proposed I2C changes. I've long-since dropped the patch that you
responded to.

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