Re: [PATCH] gpio: lpc32xx: disable broken to_irq support

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Hi Linus,

On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 12:57 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Sylvain Lemieux
> <slemieux.tyco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The "to_irq" functionality is broken inside this driver since commit
> > 76ba59f8366f ("genirq: Add irq_domain-aware core IRQ handler").
> >
> > The addition of the new lpc32xx irqchip driver in 4.7, fixed the
> > lpc32xx platform interrupt issue.
> >
> > When switching to the new lpc32xx irqchip driver, a warning appear
> > in the lpc32xx gpio driver: warning: "NR_IRQS" redefined.
> >
> > To remove this warning (temporary solution), this patch
> > disables the broken "to_irq" mapping functionality support.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Patch applied for fixes with Vladimir's ACK.
> 
> > * The final solution is to replace the existing lpc32xx gpio driver.
> >   This work is currently in progress; refer to the following URL:
> >   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/144696
> 
> Hm, I see that the ambition was to merge the new irqchip
> driver and the new GPIO driver in the same merge window.
> Sorry if I was being too lazy/picky/whatever about the patch(es)
> I guess I didn't quite get the scope of this change. :(
> 
The new LPC32xx GPIO driver can go in a separate merge window; 
another version of the patchset is required.

For 4.7, the goal was to remove the broken dependency in the 
existing driver.

> I should say that as long as we can agree that the new code
> makes the kernel as a whole a better place, I am happy to
> merge it. Sometimes also I need to zoom out from the GPIO
> and pin control subsystem(s) and see the big picture.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

Sylvain Lemieux

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