Re: [PATCH v2] gpio/stmpe: support no-irq mode

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Jan 26 2012 - 01:35:04 EST


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/25/2012 3:23 PM, Linus WALLEIJ wrote:
>> +     if (!stmpe->pdata->no_irq) {
>> +             irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>> +             if (irq < 0)
>> +                     return irq;
>> +     }
>
> I already acked it once, but there is another idea that i have :)
> Why not allow passing no irqs in resource fields directly.
>
> i.e. platform_get_irq() < 0 will automatically mean irqs are not supported
> on platform and then we can do what we are doing in your patch. This will
> remove need of another pdata field. :)

Hm sounds intuitively elegant! Chris, do you want to have a go
at it?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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