Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: pl061: Fix the issue failed to register the ACPI interrtupion

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:12 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 5:07 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The proper fix is to revert the culprit since we call
> > acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts() for all controllers.
> > Linus, please re-do the approach with IRQ handling,
>
> Exactly what do you refer to when you want me to
> "re-do the approach for IRQ handling"? Do you mean
> this driver or are you referring to:
>
> commit e0d89728981393b7d694bd3419b7794b9882c92d
> Author: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Nov 7 19:15:54 2017 +0100
>
>     gpio: Implement tighter IRQ chip integration
>
>     Currently GPIO drivers are required to add the GPIO chip and its
>     corresponding IRQ chip separately, which can result in a lot of
>     boilerplate. Use the newly introduced struct gpio_irq_chip, embedded in
>     struct gpio_chip, that drivers can fill in if they want the GPIO core
>     to automatically register the IRQ chip associated with a GPIO chip.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Acked-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yes.

> The new API introduced by this patch is what I am trying to switch
> everything over to, because the forked paths inside of gpiolib
> is causing me a maintenance headache and also increasing
> the footprint of the library.

Yes, I understand.

> >  it seems broadly
> > regress with ACPI enabled platforms.
>
> It only becomes a problem if the platform uses ACPI right?

Unfortunately yes. Though in this case it was working and stopped working.

> But it's a problem if I can't really tell if a driver is using
> ACPI or not, there is no sign in the pl061 driver that it would
> be used on ACPI systems until now, so how do I design
> for it?

It's hidden under amba_driver_register() which works for all
registered thru drivers/acpi/acpi_amba.c.
I agree this is not straightforward.

> The problem comes from the problem/mess I am trying to
> clean up in the first place. So if the new way of registering GPIO
> irqchips is not working for ACPI, then we have to fix that instead
> of reverting all attempts to use the new API IMO.

Sorry for me being impatient and asking for a groundless requests.
I'll help you with cleaning this.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko