Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: interrupt consistency check for OF GPIO IRQs

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 02:31 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>>> Perhaps rather than having the gpio_chip/irq_chip drivers physically
>>> implement a function which calls this common code, they could set some
>>> flags/data/... in the struct gpio_chip/irq_chip indicating that they
>>> desire the core code that implements the error-checking to be enabled.
>>
>> I think it should more be like a function they can call to flag
>> a GPIO as used for IRQ.
>
> For the record, that's pretty much exactly what I meant by implementing
> it in the drivers. The irq_chip driver knows when the IRQ has been
> requested, and calls some gpiolib function to mark the GPIO as
> in-use-as-an-IRQ.

Ah OK we're on the same page, this is progressing :-)

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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