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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] ARM: tegra: Initialize interrupt controller from DT
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:45:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4149432.nxIqEBW8Gp@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140830155459.GI3683@titan.lakedaemon.net>

On Saturday 30 August 2014 11:54:59 Jason Cooper wrote:
> > I have to admit I don't really understand how these work, but what
> > I'd expect to work better is a way to turn the gic code into more
> > of a library that can be used by specialized drivers. In that
> > case you would register a driver for the tegra gic using IRQCHIP_DECLARE
> > and that driver would call a variation of gic_of_init() or gic_init_bases()
> > with the extra stuff as arguments.
> > 
> > We'd have to hack around the fact that all these platforms currently
> > don't list a specialized compatible string, but at least for the future
> > we should be able to do this without special hacks.
> 
> Thomas was talking about this just the other day:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1408271347210.3323 at nanos

Ah, cool. That seems better than what I had in mind. Yes, let's do that.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28 15:31 [PATCH v4 1/5] of: Add NVIDIA Tegra Legacy Interrupt Controller binding Thierry Reding
2014-08-28 15:31 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] ARM: tegra: Add legacy interrupt controller nodes Thierry Reding
2014-08-28 16:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-01  8:16     ` Peter De Schrijver
2014-08-28 15:31 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] ARM: tegra: Initialize interrupt controller from DT Thierry Reding
2014-08-28 16:10   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-29  7:31     ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-29 14:24       ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-29 15:04         ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-29 19:53           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-30 15:54             ` Jason Cooper
2014-09-01  8:45               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-09-01  8:47             ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-29  3:27   ` Varka Bhadram
2014-08-29  7:29     ` Thierry Reding
2014-08-28 15:31 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] ARM: tegra: Remove unused GIC initialization Thierry Reding
2014-08-28 15:31 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] ARM: tegra: Remove unused defines Thierry Reding

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