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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"neilb@suse.de" <neilb@suse.de>,
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	Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] misc: bmp085: Add DT bindings for EOC gpio line and direct irq.
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:47:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201311151947.51196.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131115153015.GD24831@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On Friday 15 November 2013, Mark Rutland wrote:
> There's some contention over the description of gpio-based IRQs in DT.
> From the point of view of the device there is a logical IRQ output; the
> fact that this happens to be wired up to a GPIO pin that can happen to
> generate interrupts isn't anything to do with the device itself. There
> are plenty of device we have now whose interrupt lines could be wired to
> GPIOs. I see no reason to extend their bindings to support explicit
> GPIOs for IRQs, and I see no reason the driver should have to handle
> this.
> 
> It would be far nicer for the device binding to just have the interrupts
> property, and for the gpio controller to act as an interrupt-controller,
> with the appropriate pin management.

Yes, agreed. I missed this point in my review: the GPIO is used only
as an interrupt pin here, so there is no reason to know the GPIO number.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-15 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14 21:46 [PATCH 0/3] Add EOC handling for bmp085 + DT and platform data updates Marek Belisko
     [not found] ` <1384465609-26485-1-git-send-email-marek-xXXSsgcRVICgSpxsJD1C4w@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-14 21:46   ` [PATCH 1/3] misc: bmp085: Clean up and enable use of interrupt for completion Marek Belisko
2013-11-14 21:46   ` [PATCH 2/3] misc: bmp085: Add DT bindings for EOC gpio line and direct irq Marek Belisko
2013-11-15 13:56     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-15 15:30     ` Mark Rutland
2013-11-15 18:47       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-11-18  8:58       ` Belisko Marek
     [not found]         ` <CAAfyv346pUa9k3+9jdBX+EK8cV9GenaBxrAnVnKsbUPBoNBqrQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-18 11:38           ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]             ` <201311181238.40349.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-18 17:17               ` Gerhard Sittig
     [not found]                 ` <20131118171747.GM17929-kDjWylLy9wD0K7fsECOQyeGNnDKD8DIp@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-18 22:28                   ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]                     ` <201311182328.40743.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-20 21:34                       ` [PATCH v1 1/1] dt: binding: reword PowerPC 8xxx GPIO documentation Gerhard Sittig
     [not found]                         ` <1384983293-11002-1-git-send-email-gsi-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-20 23:50                           ` Rob Herring
     [not found]                             ` <CAL_JsqJvxA240QEreWPp2L+eNFQmhp0XV=qmO4QXqTga+RFuCQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-21  8:30                               ` Gerhard Sittig
2013-11-21  0:49                           ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]                             ` <201311210149.43944.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-21  8:34                               ` Gerhard Sittig
2013-11-21  8:41                           ` [PATCH v2 " Gerhard Sittig
     [not found]                             ` <1385023304-15396-1-git-send-email-gsi-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-03  6:02                               ` Rob Herring
2013-11-20 23:23                       ` [PATCH 2/3] misc: bmp085: Add DT bindings for EOC gpio line and direct irq Gerhard Sittig
2013-11-14 21:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] misc: bmp085: Add missing platform data Marek Belisko
2013-11-15 13:58   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-16  8:23     ` Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller

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