Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] gpio: Add support for IDT 79RC3243x GPIO controller

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:50:39AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> thanks for your patch!
> 
> I can see this is starting to look really good.
> 
> There is one thing that confuses me:
> 
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:33 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > IDT 79RC3243x SoCs integrated a gpio controller, which handles up
> > to 32 gpios. All gpios could be used as an interrupt source.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes in v5:
> (...)
> 
> > +static int idt_gpio_irq_set_type(struct irq_data *d, unsigned int flow_type)
> > +{
> (...)
> > +       /* hardware only supports level triggered */
> > +       if (sense == IRQ_TYPE_NONE || (sense & IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH))
> > +               return -EINVAL;
> (...)
> > +       irq_set_handler_locked(d, handle_level_irq);
> 
> But:
> 
> > +static void idt_gpio_ack(struct irq_data *d)
> > +{
> > +       struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
> > +       struct idt_gpio_ctrl *ctrl = gpiochip_get_data(gc);
> > +
> > +       writel(~BIT(d->hwirq), ctrl->gpio + IDT_GPIO_ISTAT);
> > +}
> (...)
> > +       .irq_ack = idt_gpio_ack,
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I thing .irq_ack() is only called
> from handle_edge_irq ... so never in this case.

handle_level_irq() does a mask_ack_irq() and this uses mask_irq() and
desc->irq_data.chip->irq_ack(), if there is no irq_mask_ack function.

> Can this ACK just be deleted?

no without it interrupts won't go away.

> The code in the ACK callback also looks really weird:
> write all bits except for the current IRQ into the status
> register? It's usually the other way around with these
> things. That really makes me suspect it is unused.

interrupts are acked by writing a 0 to the bit position. I know it's
unusal...

Thomas.

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