Re: [Device-drivers-devel] [PATCH] i2c: add irq_flags to board info

[Ben Dooks <ben-i2c@fluff.org>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:51:49PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:33, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Why do we have set_irq_type() if we're not supposed to call it? I am
> > not claiming to be an expert in the area, but it seems totally
> > reasonable to me that the same piece of code instantiating an I2C
> > device is also responsible for setting its IRQ type.
> 
> but we're back to the same issue mentioned earlier -- you cant have a
> single kernel build with modules supporting multiple drivers
> simultaneously.  we like to ship development boards with a single
> kernel build on it with many modules.  then people can pick the addon
> boards they wish to prototype with at runtime by plugging in the card
> and loading the module.

I also dislike set_irq_type() as it doesn't check whether there is anyone
registered with the interrupt, which means that you could set the irq
type of someone else's irq.

I wonder if we should pass a struct resource instead, in case there
are multiple interrupt sources, as well as having it registered with
the right resource systems.

-- 
Ben

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