[PATCH 03/11] irqchip / GIC: Add GIC version support in ACPI MADT

[hanjun.guo@linaro.org (Hanjun Guo)]

On 2015?05?21? 22:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2015, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> On 2015?05?21? 04:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 May 2015, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/irq.c b/drivers/acpi/irq.c
>>>> index 65d6b93..855ead9 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/irq.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/irq.c
>>>> @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ void __init acpi_irqchip_init(void)
>>>>    	if (acpi_disabled)
>>>>    		return;
>>>>
>>>> +	if (acpi_gic_version_init())
>>>> +		return;
>>>
>>> This looks just wrong. acpi_irqchip_init() is a generic ACPI function
>>> and now you stick a GIC specific callback into it?
>>
>> For now, acpi_irqchip_init() just introduced for GIC init, not for
>> APIC init for x86, and I don't see the usage in the near future.
>>
>>>
>>> What calls acpi_irqchip_init?
>>
>> I renamed it as acpi_irq_init() in the later patch, which
>> is called in irqchip_init() in drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c
>> to init irqchip when DT is not available.
>
> Neither of those names is a good choice as they suggest that this is a
> generic acpi mechanism while in fact it is a GIC specific ACPI
> extension. And its therefor wrong to put that code into drivers/acpi.

OK, thanks for the suggestion.

>
> It belongs into drivers/irqchip/gic-acpi.c or some other descriptive
> name.

I already introduced a similar file named irq-gic-acpi.c under
drivers/irqchip/, will move the code to there in next version.

Thanks
Hanjun