On 08/20/2013 02:44 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:09:34PM +0100, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 08/19/2013 02:42 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 07:48:55PM +0100, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>> On 08/16/2013 08:47 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to consult the implementation of DT binding for the I2C device
>>>>> that exposes two interrupt pins (INT1 and INT2). Both pins can be
>>>>> configured to generate either data ready interrupts or event interrupts.
>>>>> I want to implement DT binding that will handle also the situation
>>>>> when only one of the interrupt sources is routed from the device
>>>>> to the CPU.
>>>>>
>>>>> Below is my implementation using interrupt-map:
>>>>
>>>>> + - interrupt-parent : phandle to the interrupt map subnode
>>>>
>>>> When using interrupt-parent to point at an interrupt map, I believe you
>>>> usually just point at the current node; there's no need to a child node.
>>>>
>>>>> + - interrupts : interrupt mapping for LPS331AP interrupt sources:
>>>>> + 2 sources: 0 - data ready, 1 - threshold event
>>>>
>>>>> + - irq-map : irq sub-node defining interrupt map
>>>>> + (all properties listed below are required):
>>>>
>>>> So, this node isn't required.
>>>>
>>>>> + - #interrupt-cells : should be 1
>>>>
>>>>> + - #address-cells : should be 0
>>>>> + - #size-cells : should be 0
>>>>
>>>> There are no addressed entities in this node, so I don't see why those
>>>> two properties are needed.
>>>>
>>>>> + - interrupt-map : table of entries consisting of three child elements:
>>>>> + - unit_interrupt_specifier - 0 : data ready, 1 : threshold event
>>>>> + - interrupt parent phandle
>>>>> + - parent unit interrupt specifier consisiting of two elements:
>>>>> + - index of the interrupt within the controller
>>>>> + - flags : should be 0
>>>>
>>>> It's up to the binding for the node referenced by the phandle to define
>>>> how many cells need be present for "flags", and their meaning. This
>>>> binding shouldn't attempt to describe those. Equally, the concept of
>>>> interrupt-map should be defined elsewwere (e.g.
>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt);
>>>> it's a generic that shouldn't need duplication in each binding that uses
>>>> interrupts.
>>>>
>>>>> +Example:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +lps331ap@5d {
>>>>> + compatible = "st,lps331ap";
>>>>> + reg = <0x5d>;
>>>>> + drdy-int-pin = /bits/ 8 <2>;
>>>>> + interrupt-parent = <&irq_map>;
>>>>> + interrupts = <0>, <1>;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + irq_map: irq-map {
>>>>> + #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>>>>> + #address-cells = <0>;
>>>>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>>>>> + interrupt-map = <0 &gpf0 5 0>;
>>>>> + };
>>>>> +};
>>>>>
>>>>> And here is how the driver uses this information:
>>>>>
>>>>> - if interrupt-map is empty then the driver configures
>>>>> itself to work without interrupt support
>>>>
>>>> The presence or lack of interrupt support should be driven by the
>>>> presence of the interrupts property. interrupt-map should only be used
>>>> (if present) to assist in the parsing of the interrupts property.
>>>>
>>>>> - if only one interrupt source is available then the driver
>>>>> configures the device to generate data ready interrupts on
>>>>> the corresponding INTx pin (in this case the driver must know which
>>>>> of the device pins is routed to the cpu -
>>>>> st,data-ready-interrupt-pin property conveys this information)
>>>>> - if both interrupt sources are available then the driver configures
>>>>> the device to generate data ready interrupts on the interrupt pin
>>>>> corresponding to the interrupt source with index 0 and event
>>>>> interrupts to the interrupt source with index 1.
>>>>>
>>>>> This solution seems to be a little awkward so I'd like to ask
>>>>> if there is any neater way to handle presented requirements.
>>>>> The solution must facilitate passing information about two
>>>>> interrupt sources two the I2C driver. I have been unable to find
>>>>> similar solution in the kernel so far.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. I think it would be better to work as follows:
>>>>
>>>> interrupts: contains one or two interrupt specifiers. The first entry
>>>> always defines the data ready interrupt. The second entry, if present,
>>>> defines the threshold event interrupt. This at least allows the
>>>> following combinations to be very simple expressed:
>>>>
>>>> * no interrrupts
>>>> * just data
>>>> * both data and threshold (assuming they're routed to the same parent)
>>>>
>>>> (you could swap the order if it's likely to be more common to have just
>>>> a threshold interrupt without any data interrupt).
>>>>
>>>> In order to allow the presence of a threshold interrupt but no data
>>>> interrupt, then I think you would need interrupt-map:
>>>>
>>>> lps331ap: lps331ap@5d {
>>>> compatible = "st,lps331ap";
>>>> reg = <0x5d>;
>>>> interrupt-parent = <&lps331ap>;
>>>> interrupts = <0>, <1>;
>>>> interrupt-map = <0 0>, /* nowhere */
>>>> <1 &gpf0 6 0>;
>>>> };
>>>
>>> The interrupt-names property exists for this purpose (describing
>>> interrupts which may or may not be present). Describing a nonexistent
>>> interrupt and mapping it nowhere feels like a hack to me when we can
>>> describe exactly what's present.
>>
>> But the rules for interrupts basically precludes the useful use of
>> interrupt-names.
>>
>> The interrupts property was introduced long before interrupt-names. As
>> such, the rule was always that entries in interrupts had to appear at a
>> specific index in the property, in other words, the property had to be
>> in a specific order, and there's no way of missing entries out.
>
> Ok, so for bindings that existed before reg-names, and never mentioned
> reg-names, indexed accesses to reg entries must always be used.
>
>> The interrupt-names property was added much later and more as a
>> documentation for the order in *.dts than as the primary lookup key.
>> Even with an interrupt-names property present, the order of entries in
>> interrupts is still fixed.
>>
>> So, using interrupt-names doesn't allow you to have optional entries in
>> interrupts, nor re-order the property. We really should not have added
>> interrupt-names, since it gives false impressions.
>
> I'm not sure why that has to be true for new bindings. The new bindings
> were never used before the existence of reg-names, so it doesn't seem so
> bad for the new bindings to require the use of reg-names, or to define
> some optional usage of reg-names.
IIRC, the argument put forth was that OSs may assume a complete lack of
the reg-names property and only allow looking up reg values by index,
and hence making use of reg-names would prohibit those OSs from
supporting new bindings. Although that said, quite why reg-names was
then allowed as a property I don't know. IIRC, another argument was that
we didn't want to force people into the overhead of parsing via
reg-names when a simple index could be used instead, so reg had to
always have a defined order even if reg-names was allowed.
On the assumption that reg-names wasn't retro-fitted to any "old"
bindings that originally just documents reg and not reg-names, then I
suppose we could say:
If a binding defines reg-names, either reg-names or hard-coded indices
may be used to find entries in reg. Otherwise, only hard-coded indices
may be allowed.
But I'm worried that people will see reg-names and assume they can put
entries in arbitrary order...
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