Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: interrupt consistency check for OF GPIO IRQs

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On 08/26/2013 08:07 AM, Lars Poeschel wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently the kernel is ambigously treating GPIOs and interrupts
> from a GPIO controller: GPIOs and interrupts are treated as
> orthogonal. This unfortunately makes it unclear how to actually
> retrieve and request a GPIO line or interrupt from a GPIO
> controller in the device tree probe path.

I still think that this patch is the wrong approach. Instead, the logic
should be hooked into gpio_request() and request_irq(). This patch only
addresses DT, and ignores anything else, hence doesn't seem like the
right level of abstraction to plug in, since the issue is not related to DT.
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