Re: [PATCH v4] gpio: add Intel WhiskeyCove GPIO driver
From: Bin Gao <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-12 00:08:21
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 10:57:19AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
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+ gpiochip_irqchip_add(&wg->chip, &wcove_irqchip, 0, + handle_simple_irq, IRQ_TYPE_NONE);Reexamine the use of handle_simple_irq() here. We have two kinds of irq hardware: those with one register for ACKing and reading the status of an IRQ, and those with two registers for it: one where you ACK the IRQ (so it can immediately re-trigger) and one to read the status of whether it happened. Sometimes different handling is needed for levek and edge IRQs even (c.f. gpio-pl061.c). Only the hardware with just one register for both things should use handle_simple_irq(). This seems to be the case here but I want you to verify.
Yes, our case is handle_simple_irq(), not handle_edge_irq(), handle_level_irq() or handle_fasteoi_irq(), etc. because there is no ACK mechanism inside the GPIO controller's interrupt logic - all we need to do is read the status register to get the status and write-to-clear the status register so that a new interrupt can be triggered, i.e. there is only one register for both.
Yours, Linus Walleij