Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dt-bindings: gpio: spacemit: add support for K1 SoC

[Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org>]

Hi Linus:

thanks for your review

On 17:34 Fri 27 Dec     , Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 1:33 AM Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > The GPIO controller of K1 support basic functions as input/output,
> > all pins can be used as interrupt which route to one IRQ line,
> > trigger type can be select between rising edge, failing edge, or both.
> > There are four GPIO banks, each consisting of 32 pins.
> (...)
> > +description:
> > +  The controller's registers are organized as sets of eight 32-bit
> > +  registers with each set controlling a bank of up to 32 pins.  A single
> > +  interrupt is shared for all of the banks handled by the controller.
> 
> I looked at the driver and came to the conclusion that it's better to use
> 4 different instances of the chip, one for each set of 32bit registers,
> so these 4 GPIO controllers are instantiated separately.
> 
sounds good to me, I will work according to this in next version

> The operating system can handle the shared interrupt, there is no
> need to use a single device instance just because the interrupt is
> shared.
> 
> DT bindings are operating system neutral, but for example in Linux
> (if we pretend this is just one possible example) then a driver
> handling a shared IRQ can be requested with the flag IRQF_SHARED
> and the driver can just return IRQ_HANDLED if it handled an IRQ
> or IRQ_NONE if it didn't handle the irq (so other instances can
> handle it).
> 
agree, make sense

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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