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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq/irq_sim: provide irq_sim_fire_edge()
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:20 PM Uwe Kleine-K?nig
> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 01:19:54PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> > > > The iio testing driver only needs the trigger and relies on an irq that
> > > > then calls the registerd handler. The iio driver doesn't need to tune
> > > > the edge sensitivity though and if your mockup driver just only calls
> > > > the fire routine if the configured sensitivity justifies that,
> > > > everything should work as expected.
> > >
> > > Simulating edges in the generic IRQ simulator codes seems
> > > generally useful to me, even if there is just one user now.
> >
> > I cannot imagine another potential user. Which kind of driver could use
> > that that is not a gpio simulator?
> 
> I suppose anything that can generate an IRQ and wants to generate
> some test IRQs where edge matters, drivers/irqchips/?

Should the irqchip be the consumer or the provider of the irq? I would
have said the provider as it is an irqchip. What would be the gain of
such an irq chip as all users could use a (flexible enough) gpio
simulator instead?

Best regards
Uwe

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