Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] gpio: gpiolib: Add ngirq member to struct gpio_irq_chip

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed May 18 2022 - 11:03:56 EST


On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 4:14 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 7:10 AM Lad Prabhakar
> <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Supported GPIO IRQs by the chip is not always equal to the number of GPIO
> > pins. For example on Renesas RZ/G2L SoC where it has GPIO0-122 pins but at
> > a give point a maximum of only 32 GPIO pins can be used as IRQ lines in
> > the IRQC domain.
> >
> > This patch adds ngirq member to struct gpio_irq_chip and passes this as a
> > size to irq_domain_create_hierarchy()/irq_domain_create_simple() if it is
> > being set in the driver otherwise fallbacks to using ngpio.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> As mentioned in some other patch, try to use .valid_mask for this instead.

I have not been Cc'ed, but briefly reading I agree with Linus.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko