Re: [PATCH] drivers: tca8418: Change the interrupt type

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:13:02AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:02:08PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:02:35AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Hello Dmitry,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:04:00PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > > The TCA8418 interrupt has a level trigger, not a edge one.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, maybe we could rely on OF data for trigger type?
> > > 
> > > We might, even though the i2c core doesn't change the trigger type
> > > when it retrieves the interrupt from the DT.
> > 
> > i2c core itself does not, and should not, but irq code does:
> > 
> > of_irq_get() -> irq_create_of_mapping() -> irq_create_fwspec_mapping()
> > -> irqd_set_trigger_type().
> 
> Ah, indeed, I overlooked that. I wonder why platform_get_irq does it
> then.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > However, I'm a bit worried about the other probing mechanims (ACPI,
> > > board files) that should be supported as well, and removing the
> > > trigger type from the flags might break those. There's no board files
> > > using it though in the tree, but I don't know about ACPI systems.
> > 
> > The driver is not enabled for ACPI systems, at least not in mainline.
> 
> Ok. Good.
> 
> > By the way, this is what TCA8418 binding dochas to say:
> > 
> > "- interrupts: IRQ line number, should trigger on falling edge"
> > 
> > so it seems there was at least one system that needed falling edge and
> > not level interrupt.
> 
> I don't know, looking at the datasheet, it really looks like it's
> level triggered to me, and we were actually seeing issues when set in
> edge.
> 
> http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tca8418.pdf
> Especially page 20 and 33.
> 
> My understanding is that in input, the chip will trigger on edges, but
> the line coming from that device to the SoC will be level triggered.

The issue is that it is not necessarily connected directly to the
SoC/AP. It could be on a daughterboard with any number of converters,
possibly inverting polarity, or doing level->edge, etc. So the only sane
solution is to leave it to device tree to describe the setup to the
driver.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry