Bamboo PCI interrupt issues

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Mar 4 13:07:50 EST 2008


>>> Uh.. there's no binding written down, it's just encoded into uic.c.
>>> But UIC doesn't use OpenPIC sensitivity encoding.  Like FSL's IPIC, 
>>> it
>>> uses Linux IRQ_TYPE values from include/linux/irq.h which makes 8
>>> "level sensitive, active-low".
>>
>> On a related note: aren't we taking a risk here of seeing those values
>> change in linux ?
>
> We've discussed this before.  If that happens, the binding must remain
> on the old values.  It means the driver will then need a translation
> which it doesn't now, but we can deal with it.

It also means it should be written down in the binding _already_.
Come on, how much work is that?


Segher




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