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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Support for MPIC on native cell
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:38:50 +0200
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On Monday 16 October 2006 09:45, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0/* The MPIC driver will get=
 everything it needs from the
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 * device-tree, just pass 0=
 to all arguments
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 */
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0mpic =3D mpic_alloc(dn, 0, =
0, 0, 0, " MPIC =A0 =A0 ");

Do you expect future users to do the same and just pass zeroes?
If so, maybe we should add a small wrapper like

static inline struct mpic *mpic_probe(struct device_node *dn)
{
	return mpic_alloc(dn, 0, 0, 0, 0, " MPIC     ");
}

in <asm/mpic.h>

	Arnd <><