Re: [PATCH 07/11] of/irq: Export of_irq_count to drivers

From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] of/irq: Export of_irq_count to drivers
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:10:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmstt91h.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec13207a-08b4-cbc4-7f29-1ce25ce1ebd0@gmail.com>

On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:49:46 +0100,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/27/21 12:43 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:28 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/27/21 12:08 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 12:07 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> In order to build drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c as a module, we will
> >>>> need to have of_irq_count() exported to modules.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  drivers/of/irq.c | 1 +
> >>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/of/irq.c b/drivers/of/irq.c
> >>>> index 352e14b007e7..949b9d1f8729 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/of/irq.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/of/irq.c
> >>>> @@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ int of_irq_count(struct device_node *dev)
> >>>>
> >>>>         return nr;
> >>>>  }
> >>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_irq_count);
> >>>
> >>> Please convert to use platform_irq_count() instead.
> >>
> >> That requires a platform_device to be passed to platform_irq_count(),
> >> will that work even when the drivers remain built into the kernel and
> >> get initialized early on?
> > 
> > No, does your irqchip using this do both? Looks to me like it is
> > always a platform_device.
> 
> On ARM/ARM64 not using GKI as well as MIPS, we would want the module to
> be built into the kernel image, however when using GKI that driver would
> become a module. How do you suggest reconciling both usages?

I don't see what GKI has to do with anything. Either the driver can be
built as a module (and it is in this case a platform device at all
times, built-in or not), or it cannot, and it falls into the
IRQCHIP_DECLARE() category (and there is no export problem).

Pick your poison!

Thanks,

	M.

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