Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: interrupt consistency check for OF GPIO IRQs

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/23/2013 12:38 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> It can't be stopped but I consider it a bug if they do, as the proper
>> way to handle such GPIO lines is the sequence:
>>
>> request_gpio(gpio);
>> request_irq(gpio_to_irq(gpio));
>
> Back in the old days of ARM board files, there were many boards that
> didn't do this. I guess that doesn't make it any less of a bug, but it
> certainly implies to me that solving this in a way that caters to that
> bug being present will be a lot more useful.

I was more thinking along the lines of trying to avoid the
unpleasant lack of control when doing this with platform
data and hard-coded GPIO numbers by restricting the way
it can be done in the device tree.

Hoping that there were no offenders in there already ...
I guess it has to hit linux-next before we know that.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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