[PATCH 3/3 v3] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt support.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Aug 4 05:13:19 EST 2012


On Aug 3, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Scott Wood wrote:

> On 08/03/2012 08:19 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Varun Sethi wrote:
>>> +	/* ioremap'ed base for error interrupt registers */
>>> +	u32 __iomem	*err_regs;
>>> +	/* error interrupt config */
>>> +	u32			err_int_config_done;
>>> +
>> 
>> Is this really needed ?
> 
> Probably a left over from when it was done on demand.
> 
>> 
>>> 	/* Protected sources */
>>> 	unsigned long		*protected;
>>> 
>>> @@ -370,6 +381,8 @@ struct mpic
>>> #define MPIC_NO_RESET			0x00004000
>>> /* Freescale MPIC (compatible includes "fsl,mpic") */
>>> #define MPIC_FSL			0x00008000
>>> +/* Freescale MPIC supports EIMR (error interrupt mask register)*/
>>> +#define MPIC_FSL_HAS_EIMR		0x00010000
>> 
>> Can't we use BRR for this?
> 
> BRR is used, and this is set as a result.  Better than opencoding a BRR
> check a bunch of places...

I'm fine w/that, but didn't see where MPIC_FSL_HAS_EMIR was being set.. Just want to avoid the caller of mpic_alloc() having to pass it in.

- k


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