From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Hogan Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 17/40] metag: IRQ handling Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:14:37 +0000 Message-ID: <50D2E50D.5080605@imgtec.com> References: <1351700061-7203-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com> <201211201615.30481.arnd@arndb.de> <50D06EAF.4050200@imgtec.com> <201212191558.57271.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from multi.imgtec.com ([194.200.65.239]:56709 "EHLO multi.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326Ab2LTKPX (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:15:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201212191558.57271.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Grant On 19/12/12 15:58, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2012, James Hogan wrote: >> So what would be the expected way to do that with linear irq domains? > > I think the best answer to that is "you're screwed". There may be > a way to change the interfaces to just EXPORT_SYMBOL if you can make > a good case about a specific driver needing it, but my suspicion is > that that's not likely to be successful when coming from an imgtec.com > address or without details about the driver that needs it ;-) :-) Well after further research it appears all the drivers I had in mind will be GPL anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem after all. Thanks James