Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: Add xgs-iproc driver

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:08 AM Chris Packham
<Chris.Packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Me:

> > I think this should be a chained interrupt handler (see below how to
> > register it).
> >
> > See e.g. drivers/gpio/gpio-ftgpio010.c for an example:
> > change function prototype, no return value, use
> > chained_irq_enter/exit(irqchip, desc); etc.
> >
>
> I don't think a chained interrupt handler can work. The problem is that
> the parent irq on the SoC is shared between the gpio and uart0 (why
> it's this way with two IP blocks in the same SoC I'll never know). When
> a chained interrupt handler is registered I lose the serial interrupts.
> Please correct me if there is some way to make the chained handlers
> deal with sharing interrupts.

Aha I see. Look at:
drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c

And how that driver sets the parent handler to NULL in order
to still exploit the core helpers.

I will refactor this to some more elegant API at some point when
I get there, for now follow the example of mt7621.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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