Re: [PATCH 03/10] irqchip/gic: Switch to dynamic chip name output

Linus Walleij
2022-02-10T23:39:04Z

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 5:26 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:

> The last dynamic aspect of the GIC's irq_chip structure is the
> name that is associated to it.
>
> Move the output of that name to the relevant callback, which
> allows us to do a bit of cleanup and mark the structures const.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

This naming was once introduced for the ARM PB11MPCore
that had two cascaded GICs (commit 58b8964990dc6)
so it became a pain to see which one
was being used in /proc/interrupts
arch/arm/boot/dts/arm-realview-pb11mp.dts

I see it is not appreciated to use /proc/interrupts for this
type of diagnostics. Ugh. I suppose people do it for the
same reason they keep using the GPIO sysfs, they like
it and they know it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij