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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: "J, KEERTHY" <j-keerthy@ti.com>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ldewangan@nvidia.com" <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	"sameo@linux.intel.com" <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"grant.likely@secretlab.ca" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	"swarren@nvidia.com" <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"gg@slimlogic.co.uk" <gg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] MFD: Palmas: Check if interrupts property exists and then only request irq
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:07:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618180707.GO1403@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C09761.1020704@wwwdotorg.org>

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:22:41AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> If the device was instantiated from a board file *or* a device tree,
> i2c->irq is correctly set. Hence, checking that value works in both cases.

The same thing will happen with any other firmware interface that gets
introduced in the future - one of the goals with factoring all this out
into the bus code is that it means the driver doesn't need to have any
special handling.

> If you check the interrupts DT property, that will only work if the
> device was instantiated from device tree, and not if it was instantiated
> from a board file; the property will never exist in the board file case,
> and hence you'll never be able to have a board file provide an interrupt.

Exactly.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 10:01 [PATCH v2 0/4] MFD: Palmas: Add TPS659038 PMIC support on Palmas J Keerthy
2013-06-18 10:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] MFD: Palmas: Check if interrupts property exists and then only request irq J Keerthy
2013-06-18 15:51   ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-18 16:54     ` J, KEERTHY
2013-06-18 17:08       ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-18 17:19         ` J, KEERTHY
2013-06-18 17:22           ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-18 17:33             ` J, KEERTHY
2013-06-18 19:11               ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-19  1:28                 ` J, KEERTHY
2013-06-18 18:07             ` Mark Brown [this message]

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