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From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mfd wm8350: allocate irq descs dynamically
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 05:23:17PM +0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:13:26AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 
> > Ok, how about this?
> 
> > - Add a ALLOC_DESCS flag to platform data
> > - Without platform data are descs are dynamically allocated
> > - With platform data and ALLOC_DESCS not set: no dynamically
> >   allocated descs, no change at all
> > - With ALLOC_DESCS set descs are dynamically allocated with:
> >   - if irq_base is 0, the some range is allocated
> >   - with irq_base != 0, exactly irq_base + num is allocated
> 
> > I also wonder if we should spill out a warning when ALLOC_DESCS is not
> > set. It basically means that we may use some otherwise used resources.
> 
> I dunno, that seems painful.  Perhaps we just accept that some boards
> will be broken if things go wrong - the whole ALLOC_DESCS thing seems
> more pain than it's worth.

Great :)

I'll send an updated patch soon.

Thanks
 Sascha

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