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Re: [PATCH 04/12] dt-bindings: soc: fsl: qe: Add support of IRQ in QE GPIO

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-07-08 08:20:26
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-devicetree, linux-gpio, lkml

On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Paul Louvel wrote:
On Mon Jul 6, 2026 at 8:52 AM CEST, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
quoted
On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 03:30:12PM +0200, Paul Louvel wrote:
quoted
Some QE GPIO pins have an associated interrupt line in the QE PIC to
signal state changes on the pin.  Add the corresponding
interrupt-controller / nexus properties to the QE GPIO binding.

Because the GPIO controller does not perform any interrupt handling
itself, a nexus node (interrupt-map) is used to map each GPIO line
supporting IRQ to the parent QE PIC interrupt domain.

As the QE PIC can be configured to generate an interrupt on either a
high-to-low transition or any change in signal state, three
interrupt-map entries are needed per GPIO pin that can yield an
interrupt (falling, both, and the "none" case which defaults to both in
QE PIC).  This overhead is necessary because the interrupt-map-pass-thru
property is not part of the DT specification.

The interrupt-map property is optional: it is not required for GPIO
banks that have no interrupt capable GPIO line (e.g. port D on MPC8323),
or when interrupt functionality is not used.

Update the example to show a scenario where each bank supports a
different numbers of IRQs, or no IRQs at all.

Signed-off-by: Paul Louvel <redacted>
---
 .../bindings/gpio/fsl,mpc8323-qe-pario-bank.yaml   | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fsl,mpc8323-qe-pario-bank.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fsl,mpc8323-qe-pario-bank.yaml
index 1af99339ff40..0c849a5698f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fsl,mpc8323-qe-pario-bank.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fsl,mpc8323-qe-pario-bank.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ properties:
   "#gpio-cells":
     const: 2
 
+  "#address-cells":
+    const: 0
+
+  "#interrupt-cells":
+    const: 2
+
If this has interrupt-cells, then it is a nexus, thus why isn't this
also a "interrupt-controller"?
Because these these banks are not interrupt controllers.
Interrupts are handled by the QE PIC, and the GPIO controller does not do any
interrupt handling itself.
In this setup, does it really needs an "interrupt-controller" property?
So this is interrupt-nexus, but not an interrupt-controller. If that's
the case of hardware, then it is fine/correct.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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