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

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Hi everyone,

[jumping in on an old discussion]

On 09/09/2013 06:19 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:16:36PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 09/04/2013 03:05 AM, Lars Poeschel wrote:

The driver that tries to use the GPIO requested by this patch before HAS to
fail. This is exactly the intention of this patch. We don't want the GPIO to
be requested any more, if it is used as an interrupt pin.

That will break existing drivers. There are drivers that request the
same GPIO and IRQ. IIRC, the SDHCI CD (Card Detect) GPIO is requested
that way.

Yes, plus input devices and audio jack detection among others.  This
pattern is very common if the GPIO is actually being used as a GPIO, an
edge triggered interrupt is used to flag when something happens and the
state is determined by reading the GPIO state (often with some
debounce).

I actually came across this thread while looking for an answer to the following (apparently trivial) question:

If you were to write a new driver & binding, what would be, in general, the recommended DT binding for a cascade interrupt controller (or any other peripheral, for that matter), which is connected through a GPIO (to be used as IRQ)?

a) Through gpios = <&gpio0 N>
b) through interrupt-parent = <&gpio0> & interrupts <N IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>, or
c) both?

Thanks!
Gerlando
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