MPC8272- Porting HDLC driver from 2.6.14 to 2.6.27- "no_irq_chip" error

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 2 10:48:34 EST 2009


On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 22:22 +0200, Frank Svendsbøe wrote:
> Regarding doing manual mapping: Is there another way to retrieve the
> host controller
> from a driver module without modifying kernel source? In case not, do
> you think
> exporting the mpc8xx_pic_host symbol is a better solution?
> 
> Anyway, now that I'm beginning to understand dts I guess I might as
> well just do it properly.

Well, precisely :-) The DTS allows to contain the linkage to the PIC and
let the kernel resolve it all nicely for you.

Cheers,
Ben.





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