[PATCH 3/5] gpio/omap: Add DT support to GPIO driver

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:01:22 -0600, Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02/26/2013 04:44 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 02/26/2013 03:40 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:
> >> On 02/26/2013 04:01 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >> Are you requesting the gpio anywhere? If not then this is not going to
> >> work as-is. This was discussed fairly recently [1] and the conclusion
> >> was that the gpio needs to be requested before we can use as an interrupt.
> > 
> > That seems wrong; the GPIO/IRQ driver should handle this internally. The
> > Ethernet driver shouldn't know/care whether the interrupt it's given is
> > some form of dedicated interrupt or a GPIO-based interrupt, and even if
> > it somehow did, there's no irq_to_gpio() any more, so the driver can't
> > tell which GPIO ID it should request, unless it's given yet another
> > property to represent this.
> 
> I agree that ideally this should be handled internally. Did you read the
> discussion on the thread that I referenced [1]? If you have any thoughts
> we are open to ideas :-)

I'm on an airplane right now, but I agree 100% with Stephen. I'll try to
remember to go read that thread and respond, but this falls firmly in
the its-a-bug category for me.  :-)

g.