Re: [PATCH] extcon: max77843: Clear IRQ bits state before request IRQ

[Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>]

On 06/05/2015 01:54 PM, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
>>   
>>  IRQ signal before driver probe is needless because driver sends
>> current state after platform booting done.
>> So, this patch clears MUIC IRQ bits before request IRQ.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon02.kim@samsung.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/extcon/extcon-max77843.c |    9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> Q1. Is this because the pending bits are USELESS?
> or because the pendeing bits incurs INCORRECT behaviors?

The max77843 datasheet includes following sentence:
- "All bits are cleared after a read" about INT1/INT2/INT3 register.
There are no problem about interrupt handling.

> 
> Q2. Does clearing (by reading) INT1 do everything you need?
> What about INT2 and INT3?

The MAXIM MAX77843 MUIC support the one more interrupts (e.g., ADC1K, VBVolt, ChgTyp ...).
The each interrupt is included in the one register among INT1/2/3.

This patch clear the all interrupts of MAX77843 before requesting the interrupts.

> 
> Q3. I presume that "driver sends current state after..." is
> coming from the invokation of "queue_delayed_work()" at the end 
> of the probe function. It appears that you are only serving
> the pending status of "cable detection" with it while INT1
> seems to have more functionalities. Does that delayed work
> do everything that are pending, really?

When completed kernel booting, the delayed work of extcon-max77843.c driver
use the MAX77843_MUIC_STATUSx register to detect the type of connected
external connectors. So, there are no problme about clearing all bits of INT1/2/3 interrupt register.

If user-space platform don't finish the initialization of all user-process daemons
and extcon driver send the uevent during only kernel booting, the uevent is not handled
on user-space daemons.

Thanks,
Chanwoo Choi