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From: jy0922.shim@samsung•com (Joonyoung Shim)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: S5P: Support gpio interrupts
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:40:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C32DDE1.8070906@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101cb1427$e88bfec0$b9a3fc40$%szyprowski@samsung.com>

On 6/25/2010 2:33 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:51 AM Kukjin Kim wrote:
> 
>> Joonyoung Shim wrote:
>>> This patch v2 set is to support gpio interrupts of samsung s5p cpus, and
>>> the GPIOlib gpio_to_irq goes to plat-samsung gpiolib, so patch v2 set
>>> has four commit smaller than v1.
>>>
>>> Changes since v1:
>>> - Add irq_base to s3c_gpio_chip struct
>>> - GPIOlib gpio_to_irq() is implemented to samsung_gpiolib_to_irq() of
>>>   plat-samsung gpiolib
>>>
>>> Joonyoung Shim (4):
>>>       ARM: S5PV210: Add gpio interrupt support
>>>       ARM: S5PC100: Use S5P gpio interrupts interface
>>>       ARM: S5PC100: Move external interrupt defines
>>>       ARM: SAMSUNG: Add GPIOlib gpio_to_irq
>>>
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/Makefile                 |    2 +-
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/gpiolib.c                |   70 ++-----
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/include/mach/gpio.h      |    7 -
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/include/mach/irqs.h      |   18 ++-
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/include/mach/regs-gpio.h |    7 +
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/irq-gpio.c               |  266
>> ------------------------
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/gpiolib.c                |   18 ++-
>>>  arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/include/mach/irqs.h      |   16 ++-
>>>  arch/arm/plat-s5p/Makefile                     |    2 +-
>>>  arch/arm/plat-s5p/irq-gpioint.c                |  208 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>  arch/arm/plat-samsung/gpiolib.c                |    9 +
>>>  arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/gpio-core.h |    6 +
>>>  12 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 334 deletions(-)
>>>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-s5pc100/irq-gpio.c
>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/plat-s5p/irq-gpioint.c
>>>
>> I am sure this patchset is working code, but Ben had made suggestion about
>> 'sparse irq'...
>> It is because there are too many gpio interrupts and having support of all
>> of them is unnecessary as realistically only few of them maybe used.
> 
> Right. Ben suggested to create a pool for gpio interrupts (for example 16
> interrupts) and selectively assign them in machine startup code to those
> gpio pins that really need it.
> 
> The problem is that such solution is not yet ready and we really need the
> gpio interrupt functionality for our boards (Aquila and GONI). 
> 
> Maybe these current patches could be merged now, and then, once the new
> solution is prepared, the gpio interrupt support get converted to selective
> registering?
> 

I agree with Marek.

Ben and Kukjin, how do you think about this?

> S5PC100 already has gpio interrupt support.
>  
>> In fact in SMDK board there is no use of gpio in interrupt mode.
> 
> We are talking about support for Samsung S5PV210/S5PC110 SoCs in the Linux
> mainline kernel, not the support for only SMDK boards. GPIO interrupts is
> a feature of the SoC not a particular board.
> 
> Best regards
> --
> Marek Szyprowski
> Samsung Poland R&D Center
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-06  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11  8:33 [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: S5P: Support gpio interrupts Joonyoung Shim
2010-06-23  7:50 ` Kukjin Kim
2010-06-23 13:36   ` Kyungmin Park
2010-06-25  5:33   ` Marek Szyprowski
2010-07-06  7:40     ` Joonyoung Shim [this message]

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