Re: [PATCH] driver: platform: Add support for GpioInt() ACPI to platform_get_irq()

Andy Shevchenko
2019-02-07T20:18:19Z

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:45 PM Enrico Granata <egranata@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:39 AM Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:04 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:

>> > > This is not currently done for the platform drivers, as platform_get_irq()
>> > > does not try to parse GpioInt() resources.
>>
>> And why is this a problem?

> In ChromeOS, we have a driver (cros_ec_lpc) which can run either on systems that directly expose the interrupt,
> or systems where the interrupt goes through a GPIO controller. On the former, firmware provides an Interrupt resource
> and platform_get_irq() finds it. On the latter, firmware provides a GpioInt resource and platform_get_irq does not
> find it. We could work around this in the driver by probing both paths, but since other subsystems seem to directly
> look for GpioInt resources, it seemed to us to make more sense to extend platform_get_irq() instead.

Looking briefly into the driver I found third scenario — no resource at all.
So, you already have a quirk for that. Now it's the question either
you go for global quirk (trying to find an IRQ via iterating over
GpioInt() resources like in this patch, but in the driver), or use DMI
table for more stricter rules.

Either way you choose, I don't see a necessity to put this to the
driver core for now since it would be the only (let's assume properly
written ACPI tables) driver needs such.

> Do you have a suggestion as to how to write ACPI tables to avoid the issue?

1. Allocate new ID and use it (perhaps not the best path).
2. Use GPE(s).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko