Re: [PATCH V2] media: i2c: Add ADV761X support

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

On 11/29/2013 02:42 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote:
>> On 11/29/2013 11:37 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> (...)
>>> Specifically you should be able to request an IRQ from the irq_chip
>>> portions of the driver without first requesting the GPIO line.
>>>
>>> Some drivers already support this.
>>>
>>> We added an internal API to the gpiolib so that the lib, *internally*
>>> can be made aware that a certain GPIO line is used for IRQs,
>>> see commit d468bf9ecaabd3bf3a6134e5a369ced82b1d1ca1
>>> "gpio: add API to be strict about GPIO IRQ usage"
>>>
>>> So I guess the answer to the question is something like, fix
>>> the GPIO driver to stop requiring the GPIO lines to be requested
>>> and configured before being used as IRQs, delete that code,
>>> and while you're at it add a call to gpiod_lock_as_irq()
>>> to your GPIO driver in the right spot: examples are on the
>>> mailing list and my mark-irqs branch in the GPIO tree.
>>
>> As far as I understand it this already works more or less with the driver.
>> The problem is that the IRQ numbers are dynamically allocated, while the
>> GPIO numbers apparently are not. So the board code knows the the GPIO number
>> at compile time and can pass this to the diver which then does a gpio_to_irq
>> to lookup the IRQ number. This of course isn't really a problem with
>> devicetree, but only with platform board code.
> 
> This has been solved *also* for platform board code by the new, fresh
> GPIO descriptor mechanism, see Documentation/gpio/*
> in Torvalds' git HEAD.

This works when the GPIO numbers are dynamically allocated (which are static
in this case), but not for IRQ numbers.

- Lars