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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Dec 2020 12:18:29 +0200
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Subject: Re: 0001-add-amlogic-gpio-to-irq
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
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On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:25 PM Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com> wrote:
> On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 10:13, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> This HW only has 8 irqs that can each be mapped to a pin. No direct
> translation can be made, we have to allocate an irq to monitor the line.
> So when gpio_to_irq() was called, we had to do that allocation dynamically
> to return a valid irq number. Since there was no counter part to
> gpio_to_irq(), those allocation cannot be freed during the lifetime of
> the device.

I'm not sure why we are talking about legacy API which should not be used.
Besides that I didn't get what you meant under counterpart API (IRQ
descriptor has a mapping to the IRQ chip which keeps the mapping to
whatever hardware wants).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko