On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:25:23PM +0100, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 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...
We should fix the binding documents to make clear which bindings require
their reg properties at fixed indexes, and those which allow for
arbitrarily ordered named reg entries. Named reg entries are really
useful for blocks with optional components, and given we have drivers
using them, they're already mandatory for some bindings.
Thanks,
Mark.
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