[PATCH 3/3 v2] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt support.

[Sethi Varun-B16395]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:17 AM
> To: Wood Scott-B07421
> Cc: Sethi Varun-B16395; Hamciuc Bogdan-BHAMCIU1; linuxppc-
> dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt
> support.
> 
> 
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> > On 07/09/2012 02:03 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:47 AM, Varun Sethi wrote:
> >>
> >>> +int mpic_err_int_init(struct mpic *mpic, irq_hw_number_t irqnum) {
> >>
> >> Why can't we do this during mpic_init() time?
> >
> > Are you willing to hardcode that IRQ 16 is the error interrupt,
> > without waiting to see an intspec?
> 
> I'm torn, but the bit of code in mpic_host_xlate that calls
> mpic_err_int_init() is just ugly.
> 
> We could consider it similar to how we assume IPIs.
[Sethi Varun-B16395] I don't understand this point.

-Varun