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

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On 08/29/2013 06:24 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
...
> We have been trying to solve this issue for a few months by now and Linus'
> approach seems to be the most sensible solution to me.
> 
> Drivers that request an IRQ and assume that platform code will request and setup
> the GPIO have been broken since the boards using these drivers were migrated to
> DT (e.g: smsc911x on OMAP2+ boards).

That's only true if the driver for the GPIO controller is buggy.
Whatever request_irq() maps down to in the GPIO/IRQ controller driver
simply needs to set up the pin as an interrupt input, then it doesn't
matter which order the driver does things.
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