Re: [RFC] gpio/omap: auto-setup a GPIO when used as an IRQ

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 09/22/2013 08:40 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> To use a GPIO pin as an interrupt line, two previous configurations
> have to be made:
> 
> a) Map the GPIO pin as an interrupt line into the Linux irq space
> b) Enable the GPIO bank and configure the GPIO direction as input
> 
> Most GPIO/IRQ chip drivers just create a mapping for every single
> GPIO pin with irq_create_mapping() on .probe so users usually can
> assume a) and only have to do b) by using the following sequence:
> 
> gpio_request(gpio, "foo IRQ");
> gpio_direction_input(gpio);
> 
> and then request a IRQ with:
> 
> irq = gpio_to_irq(gpio);
> request_irq(irq, ...);
> 
> Some drivers know that their IRQ line is being driven by a GPIO
> and use a similar sequence as the described above but others are
> not aware or don't care wether their IRQ is a real line from an
> interrupt controller or a GPIO pin acting as an IRQ.
> ...

I think that explanation is a bit like retro-actively implying that
drivers /should/ be aware of whether their IRQ is a GPIO or not, and
should be acting differently. However, they should not.

I would much rather see a simpler patch description along the lines of:

The OMAP GPIO controller HW requires that a pin be configured in GPIO
mode in order to operate as an interrupt input. Since drivers should not
be aware of whether an interrupt pin is also a GPIO or not, the HW
should be fully configured/enabled as an IRQ if a driver solely uses IRQ
APIs such as request_irq, and never calls any GPIO-related APIs. As
such, add the missing HW setup to the OMAP GPIO controller's irq_chip
driver.

The code change looks like it does what I would expect though.