From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Fabien Marteau <fabien.marteau@armadeus.com>
Cc: Scott Moreau <oreaus@gmail.com>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: joystick: Adding Austria Microsystem AS5011 joystick driver
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:19:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101127081900.GE28667@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CEE3632.6020502@armadeus.com>
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Fabien Marteau wrote:
> >
> > Just why does it have to be separately allocated? I'd even stick with
> > "as5011" for all IRQ names.
>
> I thought that irq name should be different for each IRQ used under device and
> for each device used in system. I can use the same irq name if I've got several
> as5011 joystick in the same system ?
No, it's just a tag shown in /proc/interrupts and a few other places.
Simply a driver name would work splendidly.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-27 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 16:36 [PATCH] input: joystick: Adding Austria Microsystem AS5011 joystick driver Fabien Marteau
2010-11-23 17:45 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-11-24 15:29 ` Anirudh Ghayal
2010-11-25 10:32 ` Fabien Marteau
2010-11-24 19:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-25 10:10 ` Fabien Marteau
2010-11-27 8:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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