Re: [PATCH 02/11] genirq: Export irq_to_desc() again to modules

Thomas Gleixner
2021-09-25T21:02:12Z

On Fri, Sep 24 2021 at 10:05, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In order to build drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c as a module (for use
> in GKI), we need to export_to_desc() which is used in this snippet of
> code:
>
> irqd_set_single_target(irq_desc_get_irq_data(irq_to_desc(virq)));
>
> This effectively reverts 64a1b95bb9fe ("genirq: Restrict export of
> irq_to_desc()").

No. I'm not reexporting this. We've spent quite some time to prevent all
kind of drivers for fiddle with irq descriptors and I'm not going
to reopen that can of worms.

irq_get_irq_data() is exported and provides you what you need.

Thanks,

tglx