[PATCH] arm pxa: remove "direction input" forcing for IRQ GPIOs

[giometti@enneenne.com (Rodolfo Giometti)]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:44:29PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:21:46PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> > PXA CPUs may use their GPIOs as IRQ lines even if they are selected as
> > outputs (see for example figure 24-1 into PXA27x Processor Family
> > Developer's Manual). So forcing GPIOs IRQ lines as inputs is not
> > correct.
> > 
> > Programmers should set up GPIOs direction according to their usage and
> > the function pxa_gpio_irq_type() should simply enable the IRQ
> > detection.
> 
> Interesting. Is this an academic issue or do you actually use that?
> That would mean you externally drive the IO pin level to something else
> than the output driver provides, which isn't healthy at all.

It's a real configuration with no electrical drawbacks at all! Of
course the driver's output must be passive (I use it to detect a CARD
insert) but it's functional.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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