Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] irqchip: gic-v3: Add quirk for msm8996 secured registers

Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-11-29T14:10:36Z

On 28/11/18 23:33, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> Given that the change request introducing this restriction looks quite
> generic and that we've heard reports of other shipping platforms having
> the same restriction, could we make this slightly more generic?
>
> I.e. dropping the MSM8996 from the flag name and perhaps use a bool
> property in devicetree to toggle the flag, instead of adding compatibles
> as we figure out which Qualcomm platforms has this restriction.
If I understand the dt compatible thing correctly. Am not expecting
other platforms to add new compatible string. If the gic-v3 of that SoC
is compatible with msm8996, they should be able to use the same
compatible string!

--srini