Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] pinctrl: sunxi: a523: Remove unneeded IRQ remuxing flag

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne petek, 27. marec 2026 ob 12:30:04 Srednjeevropski standardni čas je Andre Przywara napisal(a):
> The Allwinner A10 and H3 SoCs cannot read the state of a GPIO line when
> that line is muxed for IRQ triggering (muxval 6), but only if it's
> explicitly muxed for GPIO input (muxval 0). Other SoCs do not show this
> behaviour, so we added a optional workaround, triggered by a quirk bit,
> which triggers remuxing the pin when it's configured for IRQ, while we
> need to read its value.
> 
> For some reasons this quirk flag was copied over to newer SoCs, even
> though they don't show this behaviour, and the GPIO data register
> reflects the true GPIO state even with a pin muxed to IRQ trigger.
> 
> Remove the unneeded quirk from the A523 family, where it's definitely
> not needed (confirmed by experiments), and where it actually breaks,
> because the workaround is not compatible with the newer generation
> pinctrl IP used in that chip.
> 
> Together with a DT change this fixes GPIO IRQ operation on the A523
> family of SoCs, as for instance used for the SD card detection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: b8a51e95b376 ("pinctrl: sunxi: Add support for the secondary A523 GPIO ports")

Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Jernej