Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] irqchip: Supply new driver for STi based devices

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 November 2014 16:24:59 Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig b/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> > index b21f12f..e502f15 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> > @@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ config RENESAS_IRQC
> >  	bool
> >  	select IRQ_DOMAIN
> >  
> > +config ST_IRQCHIP
> > +	bool
> > +	select REGMAP
> > +	select MFD_SYSCON
> > +	help
> > +	  Enables SysCfg Controlled IRQs on STi based platforms.
> > +
> 
> I'm confused by the purpose of this code. It's apparently a driver
> in drivers/irqchip, the Kconfig symbol contains the string IRQCHIP,
> yet it doesn't actually register an irq_chip.
> 
> Also, the name is a bit too generic, ST has lots of different irqchips,
> and this apparently isn't even one of them ;-)

Hmm... now you're going to ask me to remember who I had the
conversation with that alluded to this as the best location for this
driver.  Unfortunately, I cannot.  Can you think of a better place to
put it then?

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