[PATCH 0/6] General device tree irq domain infrastructure

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri May 6 00:07:05 EST 2011


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> > As for the mapping, I agree that the functionality is generally
>> > useful, I'm just not fond of the current implementation.  I think it
>> > is more complex than it needs to be and I'm not excited about bring it
>> > over to the other architectures as-is.
>>
>> Nobody cares about the current implementation. What is important is
>> indeed the functionality. The basic thing I think everybody agrees is
>> that you need to extend the irq_desc (or data, whatever tglx prefers)
>> with two bits of information: Some identifier of the domain and some
>> identifier of the interrupt number within that domain.
>
> irq_data because that's what is handed into the callbacks and you
> probably want to have the HW number there.

Okay, I'll take another hack at it.  Unfortunately I've got a great
big unmaskable interrupt in the form of UDS next week, but I'll be
back on it the week after.

g.


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