Re: [PATCH] ARM: pxa: fix lubbock interrupts handling

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:42:01 +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> When gpio-pxa was moved to drivers/pxa, it became a driver, and its
> initialization and probing happen at postcore initcall. The lubbock code
> used to install the chained lubbock interrupt handler at init_irq()
> time.
> 
> The consequence of the gpio-pxa change is that the installed chained irq
> handler lubbock_irq_handler() was overwritten in pxa_gpio_probe(_dt)(),
> removing :
>  - the handler - the falling edge detection setting of GPIO0, which
>  revealed the
>    interrupt request from the lubbock IO board.
> 
> As a fix, move the gpio0 chained handler setup to a place where we have
> the guarantee that pxa_gpio_probe() was called before, so that lubbock
> handler becomes the true IRQ chained handler of GPIO0, demuxing the
> lubbock IO board interrupts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
> ---
> For Thomas: as a side note, I'm not very happy with this patch. What
>             makes me unhappy is that I don't know how to express the
>             dependency between gpio-pxa probe time and
>             irq_set_chained_handler(irq, lubbock_irq_handler).
> 
>             At the moment I rely on the fact that
>             lubbock_irq_device_init() is called as device initcall while
>             pxa_gpio_probe() is called as postcore initcall.
> 
>             If you have a better idea I'm all ears.

What about just making a lubbock CPLD a special separate device?
Then it will have normal probe callback and a possibility to return
-EPROBE_DEFER? If only syscon (drivers/mfd/syscon.c) could support
irq generation, it would fit ideally.

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With best wishes
Dmitry