[PATCH] input: keyboard: gpio-keys: Try to parse IRQ from device tree

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 16:23:15 EST 2012


Hi Tomasz,

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:20:00PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On modern platforms using device tree and non-legacy IRQ domains there
> is usually no way to perform direct translation between GPIO and IRQ,
> because the IRQ of interest is not mapped yet into sparse IRQ namespace.
> 
> This patch modifies the gpio_keys driver to parse IRQ from device tree
> and use gpio_to_irq only as a fallback.

This means that this change would need to be applied to every driver
that currently maps gpio to IRQ. Why can't gpio_to_irq() be fixed
instead?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry


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