From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: Orion: DT support for IRQ and GPIO Controllers Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:58:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20120705145801.4985770d@skate> References: <1341325365-21393-1-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch> <1341325365-21393-2-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch> <20120705110251.596331e0@skate> <20120705094824.GO17534@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120705094824.GO17534-g2DYL2Zd6BY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Jason Cooper , devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, rob.herring-bsGFqQB8/DxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org, Michael Walle , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, spi-devel-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Lior Amsalem , Maen Suleiman List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hello, Le Thu, 5 Jul 2012 11:48:24 +0200, Andrew Lunn a =C3=A9crit : > The biggest problem i had, is the interaction between generic chip > interrupts and irqdomain. There has been work to integrate the two, > but its stalled. Either the work needs restarting and completing, or > you need to throw away the use of generic interrupt so that you can > use irqdomain linear. IMHO, throwing away generic interrupt is the > wrong way. Can you expand on why you think it would be wrong to throw away the usage of irq_chip_generic, compared to implementing directly an irq_chip? Thanks! Thomas --=20 Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com