[PATCH][POWERPC] document ipic level/sense info

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 10 22:59:36 EST 2007


> +Sense and level information follows the Linux convention
> +(specified in include/linux/interrupt.h) and should be encoded
> +as follows:
> +
> +	1 =  low to high edge sensitive type enabled
> +	2 =  high to low edge sensitive type enabled
> +	4 =  active high level sensitive type enabled
> +	8 =  active low level sensitive type enabled

Please note that using the same bit encoding as some Linux
version does buys you (almost) nothing; a good parser for
this OF node should do range/value checking on this property
anyway, translating the values in the process costs nothing.


Segher




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