[PATCH 1/1] of/irq: store IRQ trigger/level in struct resource flags

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 00:26 Thu 06 Jun     , Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:44:05 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 04/09/2013 12:05 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On 04/05/2013 02:48 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> > >> This means that drivers that need the IRQ type/level flags defined in
> > >> the DT won't be able to get it.
> > > 
> > > But the interrupt controllers that need the information should be able
> > > to get to it via irqd_get_trigger_type. What problem exactly are you
> > > trying to fix? What driver would use this?
> > >
> > 
> > Yes but this is not about the interrupt controller wanting this information but
> > a device driver that is using the IORESOURCE_IRQ struct resource that has the
> > information about the virtual IRQ associated with a GPIO-IRQ.
> > 
> > The driver doesn't know neither care if its IRQ line is connected to a line of
> > an real IRQ controller or to a GPIO controller that allows a GPIO line to be
> > used as an IRQ.
> > 
> > > My understanding of the IORESOURCE_IRQ_xxx (and DMA) bits are they are
> > > ISA specific and therefore should not be used on non-ISA buses.
> > > 
> > 
> > Many TI OMAP2+ SoC based boards have an SMSC LAN911x/912x controller
> > (drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c) that is connected to the OMAP processor
> > through its General-Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC) and this LAN driver obtain
> > its IRQ and I/O address space from a struct resource IORESOURCE_IRQ and
> > IORESOURCE_MEM respectively, that is filled by the DeviceTree core.
> > 
> > It does this:
> > 
> > irq_res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, 0);
> > irq_flags = irq_res->flags & IRQF_TRIGGER_MASK;
> > 
> > Since of_irq_to_resource() doesn't fill the trigger/level flags on the
> > IORESOURCE_IRQ struct resource, irq_flags will always be 0 regarding the value
> > specified on the second cell of the "interrupts" DT property.

why do you need to known this in you driver this need to be handle in the irq
chip

I does use irq gpio without at all

Best Regards,
J.