Please revert commit dc9372808412edbc653a675a526c2ee6c0c14a91

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Nov 23 09:43:47 EST 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Hi Linus !
>
> Please, revert commit dc9372808412edbc653a675a526c2ee6c0c14a91
>
> "of/irq: of_irq_find_parent: check for parent equal to child"
>
> This breaks some powerpc platforms at least. The practice of having a
> node provide an explicit "interrupt-parent" property pointing to itself
> is an old trick that we've used in the past to allow a device-node to
> have interrupts routed to different controllers.
>
> In that case, the node also contains an interrupt-map, so the node is
> its own parent, the interrupt resolution hits the map, which then can
> route each individual interrupt to a different parent.

Ah, nuts, yes that is broken then.  Yes, please revert the commit and
Rob & I will come up with a better solution.

Rob, I think it can be done by explicitly checking for np ==
desc->interrupt_parent in of_irq_init() instead of relying on
of_irq_find_parent() returning NULL.

g.


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