Subject: [PATCH] mfd: stmpe: Pull IRQ GPIO number from DT during DT-based probe

From: [email-masked] (Marek Vasut)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:13:33 +0100

Dear Lee Jones,

> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > In case of a DT-based probe of the stmpe MFD driver, the irq_gpio was
> > zero, which resulted in the driver failing to probe.
> > 
> > Implement DT properties "irq-over-gpio" and "irq-gpios" which are already
> > used in "arch/arm/boot/dts/spear320-hmi.dts" to circumvent these
> > problems.
> 
> This must have slipped through the gaps. It should be removed.

True

> > The new
> > behaviour is the expected one and copies the behavior of
> > platform_data-based probe.
> 
> Blindly copying platform data behaviour to DT bindings is seldom a good
> idea.

Do you have suggestions how to pass these information? I suspect the irq-over-
gpio property can be killed, since if irq-gpios prop is there, it implies irq-
over-gpio anyway.

> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Lee Jones <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Linus Walleij <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Samuel Ortiz <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Vipul Kumar Samar <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Viresh Kumar <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/mfd/stmpe.c |    5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/stmpe.c b/drivers/mfd/stmpe.c
> > index 4b11202..fb9cd6f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/stmpe.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/stmpe.c
> > @@ -1018,6 +1018,11 @@ void stmpe_of_probe(struct stmpe_platform_data
> > *pdata, struct device_node *np)
> > 
> >  	pdata->id = -1;
> >  	pdata->irq_trigger = IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE;
> > 
> > +	pdata->irq_over_gpio = of_get_property(np, "irq-over-gpio", NULL);
> 
> This is a new DT binding and you haven't provided any documentation for it.
> 
> Also, there is no reason for the binding to exist.
> 
> Lots of drivers use GPIO pins as IRQs.

Right, this can be removed and only the 'irq-gpios' can be kept around. What do 
you say?

> > +	pdata->irq_gpio = of_get_named_gpio(np, "irq-gpios", 0);
> > +	if (!gpio_is_valid(pdata->irq_gpio))
> > +		pdata->irq_gpio = -1;
> > +
> > 
> >  	of_property_read_u32(np, "st,autosleep-timeout",
> >  	
> >  			&pdata->autosleep_timeout);

Best regards,
Marek Vasut