[PATCH v3 1/6] irqchip: add support for Marvell Orion SoCs

[sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com (Sebastian Hesselbarth)]

On 06/11/13 16:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> On 06/11/13 15:45, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> But what about the bit in of that first irq in the cause register? If
>>> it's set on entry you call generic_handle_irq() for that as well. So
>>> if it's set you need to mask it in stat. If not, then it wants a
>>> comment.
>>
>> I am not sure I can follow. orion_bridge_irq_init() maps the first
>> parent irq, i.e. hwirq 0 of orion_irq. The parent irq controller
>> clears that irq cause when all corresponding chained irqs are
>> cleared. The chained (bridge) irqs are cleared by
>> orion_bridge_irq_handler above.
>
> That makes sense. I got confused by:
>
>          irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0);
>
> but now I see that it's mapping irq 0 of the parent interrupt
> controller. I'll add a comment before merging it.

Great! Just to be sure: Please make that comment refer to just
"parent interrupt" but not specifically "parent interrupt 0".
It is 0 only for Dove, and irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0) maps the
first passed irq.

Sebastian