Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: pl061: Fix the issue failed to register the ACPI interrtupion

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:51 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:12 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 5:07 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Exactly what do you refer to when you want me to
> > "re-do the approach for IRQ handling"? Do you mean
> > this driver or are you referring to:
> >
> > commit e0d89728981393b7d694bd3419b7794b9882c92d
> > Author: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue Nov 7 19:15:54 2017 +0100
> >
> >     gpio: Implement tighter IRQ chip integration
> >
> >     Currently GPIO drivers are required to add the GPIO chip and its
> >     corresponding IRQ chip separately, which can result in a lot of
> >     boilerplate. Use the newly introduced struct gpio_irq_chip, embedded in
> >     struct gpio_chip, that drivers can fill in if they want the GPIO core
> >     to automatically register the IRQ chip associated with a GPIO chip.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Acked-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Yes.

OK let's fix this mess, it shouldn't be too hard, I've sent a first
few patches.

> > The problem comes from the problem/mess I am trying to
> > clean up in the first place. So if the new way of registering GPIO
> > irqchips is not working for ACPI, then we have to fix that instead
> > of reverting all attempts to use the new API IMO.
>
> Sorry for me being impatient and asking for a groundless requests.
> I'll help you with cleaning this.

Sorry if I sounded harsh :( I just have a bit of panic.

I am sure we can fix this, I only recently realized what a headache
the new API is going to be if I can't straighten it out and have to
keep the old stuff around forever in parallel.

Yours,
Linus Walleij