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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:14:30 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] irqchip: cirrus: Add driver for Cirrus Logic
 CS48L31/32/33 codecs
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To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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From:   Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
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On 10/11/2022 12:01, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:22:26 +0000,
> Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/11/2022 08:02, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:53:28 +0000,
>>> Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The Cirrus Logic CS48L31/32/33 audio codecs contain a programmable
>>>> interrupt controller with a variety of interrupt sources, including
>>>> GPIOs that can be used as interrupt inputs.
>>>>
>>>> This driver provides the handling for the interrupt controller. As the
>>>> codec is accessed via regmap, the generic regmap_irq functionality
>>>> is used to do most of the work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I cannot spot a shred of interrupt controller code in there. This
>>
>> It is providing support for handling an interrupt controller so that
>> other drivers can bind to those interrupts. It's just that regmap
>> provides a lot of generic implementation for SPI-connected interrupt
>> controllers so we don't need to open-code all that in the
>> irqchip driver.
> 
> And thus none of that code needs to live in drivers/irqchip.
> 
>>
>>> belongs IMO to the MFD code.
>>
>> We did once put interrupt support in MFD for an older product line but
>> the MFD maintainer doesn't like the MFD being a dumping-ground for
>> random other functionality that have their own subsystems.
> 
> I don't like this stuff either. All this code is a glorified set of
> interrupt handlers and #defines that only hide the lack of a proper DT
> binding to express the interrupt routing (it feels like looking at
> board files from 10 years ago).
> 
> None of that belongs in the irqchip code.
> 
>>
>>>   It is also a direct copy of the existing
>>> irq-madera.c code, duplicated for no obvious reason.
>>
>> It's not a duplicate. The register map of this device is different
>> (different addressing, 32-bit registers not 16-bit)
> 
> And? How hard is it to implement an indirection containing the
> register map and the relevant callbacks? /roll-eyes
> 

I note your accusation that we were too lazy (or too stupid?)
to think of this.

> 	M.
>