Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:17:40 -0600 | From | Stephen Warren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: interrupt consistency check for OF GPIO IRQs |
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On 08/26/2013 08:07 AM, Lars Poeschel wrote: > From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > > Currently the kernel is ambigously treating GPIOs and interrupts > from a GPIO controller: GPIOs and interrupts are treated as > orthogonal. This unfortunately makes it unclear how to actually > retrieve and request a GPIO line or interrupt from a GPIO > controller in the device tree probe path.
I still think that this patch is the wrong approach. Instead, the logic should be hooked into gpio_request() and request_irq(). This patch only addresses DT, and ignores anything else, hence doesn't seem like the right level of abstraction to plug in, since the issue is not related to DT.
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