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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	jason@lakedaemon.net, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:09:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868sz78vtd.wl-marc.zyngier@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0041cdb-1db6-9fee-411a-ae9d2a575349@flygoat.com>

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:56:33 +0000,
Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions, I'm working on v4 and I would like to
> ask if it is better to have a driver for only one irqchip and create
> dt nodes for each chip, or just register all the chips in a single
> driver with only one dt node.

It would make more sense to have a node per chip, meaning that you
end-up with one instance per chip as well. It won't make the driver
much more complicated.

[...]

> >> +	domain = irq_domain_add_legacy(node, num_chips * 32, LS1X_IRQ_BASE, 0,
> >> +		&irq_domain_simple_ops, NULL);
> > Why a legacy domain? This is usually reserved to old drivers that are
> > converted to a new infrastructure, while needing some form of platform
> > hacks. I don't see this being the case here.
> > 
> > It is also worrying that although you have up to 5 irqchips, they all
> > share a single domain. What does this mean? each irqchip is expected
> > to have its own domain.
> 
> Yes, I do like this for backward compatible reason. I'm turning
> a legacy platform device mach(arch/mips/loongson32) in to
> dt based generic mach and I would like to do it step by step rather
> than one time.
> 
> So I use legacy domain in order to keep IRQ same with the
> old driver exist on arch/mips/loongson32/common/irq.c

OK, it would have been good to make a note of that in the cover
letter, which is a bit empty at the moment.

Thanks,

	M.

-- 
Jazz is not dead, it just smell funny.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-26 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-22 15:45 [PATCH 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-22 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson ls1x intc Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-23  6:23 ` irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 intc v2 Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-23  6:23   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson ls1x intc Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-23  6:23   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-23  8:36     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-01-24  3:27 ` irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 intc v3 Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-24  3:27   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-24  9:54     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-01-25 10:56       ` Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-26 12:09         ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2019-01-24  3:27   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson ls1x intc Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-30 16:41     ` Rob Herring
2019-01-28 14:46 ` irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 intc v3 Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-28 14:46   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-28 15:20     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-01-28 14:46   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson ls1x intc Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-29  3:04 ` irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 intc v5 Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-29  3:05   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller Jiaxun Yang
2019-01-29  3:05   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson ls1x intc Jiaxun Yang
2019-02-01  6:22 ` irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 intc v6 Jiaxun Yang
2019-02-01  6:22   ` [PATCH v6 1/2] irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 interrupt controller Jiaxun Yang
2019-02-01  6:22   ` [PATCH v6 2/2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson ls1x intc Jiaxun Yang
2019-02-14 10:36   ` irqchip: Add driver for Loongson-1 intc v6 Marc Zyngier

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