Problem with OF interrupt parsing code
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 2 08:55:28 EST 2007
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 08:54 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It shoudn't normally happen. The reason it -does- happen in fact is
> that
> the above node is also missing the #interrupt-cells property, which
> cause the parent-lookup routine to skip it before it gets a chance to
> see that there's an "interrupt-controller" property in there.
>
> I'm not sure whether linux behaviour is a bug or not since I believe
> we
> are clearly in undefined-land as an interrupt controller should always
> have a #interrupt-cells property.
That's btw something we could add as a warning to dtc...
A node with "interrupt-controller" or "interrupt-map" in it should
always have a #interrupt-cells property.
Ben.
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