From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Chen Gong <g.chen@freescale.com>,
paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a new member name to structure irq_host
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:44:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185918267.5495.505.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f55fea27ac3a248cc99d52462d413e1e@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:42 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Which makes me think (again) that we should have an optional
> > device_node
> > pointer in irq_host. I know you said you wanted the irq stuff to be OF
> > agnostic, but the reality is most of the implementations do have an OF
> > node. And all of the newer irq_host implementations do, with the
> > exception of PS3 and celleb - which are special.
>
> How do you suggest to get a reasonable display name out of
> the device tree? The recommended human-readable name for
> interrupt controller nodes is "interrupt-controller"...
> You cannot use "device_type" either, and using "compatible"
> requires selecting one of its string entries, and likely
> using a lookup table after that, too.
In that case, I would display the node full path.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-23 11:13 [PATCH 0/3] Add virq mapping debugfs for PowerPC Chen Gong
2007-07-23 11:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add a new member name to structure irq_host Chen Gong
2007-07-23 11:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add irq host name for all powerpc interrupt controllors Chen Gong
2007-07-23 11:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add irq debugfs and virq_mapping for getting the virq Chen Gong
2007-07-23 22:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add a new member name to structure irq_host Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-23 23:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-07-23 23:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-24 4:06 ` Chen Gong-B11801
2007-07-24 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-24 9:25 ` Zhang Wei-r63237
2007-07-24 9:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-25 7:03 ` Zhang Wei-r63237
2007-07-31 19:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-31 21:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-07-31 22:13 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-31 23:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-07-31 23:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-23 11:55 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add virq mapping debugfs for PowerPC Stephen Rothwell
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