Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: palmas: support IRQ inversion at the board level

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On 02/17/2014 02:26 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Some boards or SoCs have an inverter between the PMIC IRQ output pin and
>> the IRQ controller input signal.
>>
>> The IRQ specifier in DT is meant to represent the IRQ flags at the input
>> to the IRQ controller.
>>
>> The Palmas HW's IRQ output has configurable polarity. The driver
>> currently selects the output polarity by querying the input polarity at
>> the IRQ controller. This works fine if the IRQ signal is routed directly
>> from the PMIC to the IRQ controller with no intervening logic. However,
>> if the signal is inverted between the two, this automatic polarity
>> selection gets the wrong answer.
>>
>> Add an additional optional DT and platform data parameter which indicates
>> that such an inversion occurs. If this option is enabled, the Palmas
>> driver will configure its IRQ output to the opposite polarity of the IRQ
>> controller's input.
>>
>> An alternative would have been to add a new non-optional DT parameter to
>> indicate the exact desired output polarity. However, this would have been
>> an incompatible change to the DT binding.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> If this patch could be applied to its own branch (w/ signed tag) in the
>> MFD tree, that would great; then I can pull patch 1/2 into the Tegra tree
>> so that I can apply patch 2/2 to the Tegra tree. Thanks.
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/palmas.txt | 6 ++++++
>>  drivers/mfd/palmas.c                             | 4 ++++
>>  include/linux/mfd/palmas.h                       | 1 +
>>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> For the core changes:
>   Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. Since you ack'd this and are an MFD maintainer, was that an
indication that I should take this patch through the Tegra tree?
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