Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: bcm2835: Pass irqchip when adding gpiochip

[Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Linus,

[removed Simon from CC to stop annoy him]

On 23.08.19 09:46, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:29 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We need to convert all old gpio irqchips to pass the irqchip
>> setup along when adding the gpio_chip. For more info see
>> drivers/gpio/TODO.
>>
>> For chained irqchips this is a pretty straight-forward
>> conversion. The BCM2835 has multiple parents so let's
>> exploit the new facility in the GPIO_IRQCHIP to actually
>> deal with multiple parents.
>>
>> Cc: Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> This patch is a bit scary because I haven't tried converting multiple
> parents before. Any chance one of you RPi people could give it
> a test run, so you don't have to experience testing it in linux-next?

it's on my TODO list, but i didn't had the time to test it yet.

Can you give me some test ideas?

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij