[PATCH 1/3] Add a new member name to structure irq_host

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Aug 1 09:42:58 EST 2007


>>> In that case, I would display the node full path.
>>
>> Those tend to be quite long, in the cases where there are
>> multiple interrupt controllers in the system; and really
>> useless otherwise.  I think the interrupt controllers should
>> still just fill in the names "manually".
>
> They tend to be long, but they're unique, which is what you want,

Yeah -- easy enough to add a sequence number to just about
anything though.

> and they're only for debugging anyway.

Oh, I thought it would be used wherever the user gets told something
about the interrupt controller -- like when the interrupt tree would
be shown in sysfs (yes that's hypothetical still ;-) )

>> It's a good thing to have an of_node in the irq_host struct
>> anyway, though :-)
>
> I posted patches for that last week.

I know, and thank you :-)


Segher




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