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Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:26:01 +0100
Simon Hatliff <hatliff@cadence.com> wrote:

> Hi Boris, Linus,
> 
> On 30/03/17 12:29, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:03:45 +0200
> > Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Boris Brezillon
> >> <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller.  
> >> IIUC Cadence do a lot of things. Are there variants of this controller?  
> > I'll let Simon answer that one.  
> This is a controller that has been around since 2000.  It is not 
> configurable in any way, so there are no variants.  Cadence do not offer 
> any other GPIO controllers as IP.
> >>> +static irqreturn_t cdns_gpio_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev)
> >>> +{
> >>> +       struct cdns_gpio_chip *cgpio = dev;
> >>> +       unsigned long status;
> >>> +       int hwirq;
> >>> +
> >>> +       /*
> >>> +        * FIXME: If we have an edge irq that is masked we might lose it
> >>> +        * since reading the STATUS register clears all IRQ flags.
> >>> +        * We could store the status of all masked IRQ in the cdns_gpio_chip
> >>> +        * struct but we then have no way to re-trigger the interrupt when
> >>> +        * it is unmasked.
> >>> +        */  
> >> It is marked FIXME but do you think it can even be fixed? It seems
> >> like a hardware flaw. :(  
> > Maybe not. Unless Simon comes up with a magic register to re-trigger an
> > interrupt :-).  
> There are no plans to update the controller.

Linus, what should I do here? Drop support for edge interrupts?

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[PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-29 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: gpio: Document Cadence GPIO controller bindings Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-29 18:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: gpio: Document Cadence GPIO controller bindings Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-03-30 10:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-03-30 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-30 13:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-03-30 14:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Simon Hatliff <hatliff@cadence.com> - 2017-03-30 20:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-31 15:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-04-10 15:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence GPIO controller Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-04-24 15:10 +0200

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