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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com,
	linus.walleij@stericsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/19] mfd: Don't convert just one IRQ using irqdomain if a range is provided
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:11:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120917141105.GE6777@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120917134550.GU3647@sortiz-mobl>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:45:50PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Lee, Arnd,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:57:27PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 07 September 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:37:26PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Friday 07 September 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:35:41PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The examples I had seen before were all just ranges of two interrupts,
> > > > and in those cases it was clear that splitting them would be best.
> > > > 
> > > > In the exampled of the ab8500-gpio driver, it looks like the resource is
> > > > not actually being used, and the gpio driver implements its own irq_chip,
> > > > so maybe we can get away with not solving this problem for now.
> > > 
> > > Understood. I'd still feel more comfortable if we didn't trash the
> > > range. I think it would be best to show the warning, and leave the
> > > range for its target driver to take care - hence the patch.
> > > 
> > > ... but it's your call.
> > 
> > I'm fine with whatever Samuel sees fit here.  My personal opinion is
> > that leaving the range alone for the child driver to do the conversion
> > would be too inconsistent and only lead to confusion with driver authors.
> Although I agree modifying the range is not very nice from the MFD core, I
> also think that the actual mapping should always be handled by MFD and not
> depend on wether the range is a singleton or not. Moreover the semantics of
> leaving the range untouched meaning that we haven't done the mappings is
> obscure.
> So I'm not taking this patch, sorry Lee.

No problem.

Would it be better if we _did_ support ranges, and map all of the
IRQs in the range instead?

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-17 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 11:14 [PATCH 00/19] First HREF Device Tree enablement patch-set Lee Jones
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 01/19] ARM: ux500: Add skeleton Device Tree for the HREF reference board Lee Jones
2012-09-10  8:47   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  9:37     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-14 14:01       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 02/19] ARM: ux500: Add UART support to the HREF Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-10  8:49   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 03/19] ARM: ux500: Pass SDI DMA information though AUX_DATA to MMCI Lee Jones
2012-09-10  8:50   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 04/19] ARM: ux500: Add SDI (MMC) support to the HREF Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-07 12:29   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-07 12:39     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-10  9:51   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 05/19] ARM: ux500: Stop registering HREF's SDI devices from platform data Lee Jones
2012-09-07 12:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 06/19] ARM: ux500: Add nodes for the MSP into the HREF Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-10  9:53   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  9:23     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-14 14:00       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 07/19] ARM: ux500: Add all encompassing sound node to " Lee Jones
2012-09-10  9:56   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  9:20     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 08/19] ARM: ux500: Stop registering Audio devices for HREF when DT is enabled Lee Jones
2012-09-10  9:57   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 09/19] ARM: ux500: Enable SSP (SPI) for HREF when booting Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-10 11:11   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  9:18     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-17 17:03     ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-18 12:08       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-18 12:13         ` Roland Stigge
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 10/19] ARM: ux500: Remove redundant #gpio-cell properties from HREF and Snowball DT Lee Jones
2012-09-10 11:12   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  9:10     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-14 13:58       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 11/19] ARM: ux500: Add all known I2C sub-device nodes to the HREF DT Lee Jones
2012-09-10 11:34   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  8:47     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-20  6:51       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-18 15:49     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 12/19] i2c-nomadik: Register sub-devices when passed via Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-10 11:42   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-12 10:52     ` Wolfram Sang
2012-09-14  8:27       ` Lee Jones
2012-09-14  8:41         ` Wolfram Sang
2012-09-14  9:02           ` Lee Jones
2012-09-14  9:39             ` Wolfram Sang
2012-09-14 10:15               ` Lee Jones
2012-09-14 11:32                 ` Wolfram Sang
2012-09-19 20:12                   ` Lee Jones
2012-10-06 11:25                     ` Wolfram Sang
2012-09-14  8:22     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 13/19] ARM: ux500: Stop registering I2C sub-devices for HREF when DT is enabled Lee Jones
2012-09-10 12:56   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 14/19] ARM: ux500: Apply tc3589x's GPIO/IRQ properties to HREF's DT Lee Jones
2012-09-10 12:58   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  8:33     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 15/19] mfd: Don't convert just one IRQ using irqdomain if a range is provided Lee Jones
2012-09-07 12:35   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-07 12:46     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 13:37       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-07 13:43         ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 13:57           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-17 13:45             ` Samuel Ortiz
2012-09-17 14:11               ` Lee Jones [this message]
2012-09-21 22:20                 ` Samuel Ortiz
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 16/19] mfd: Provide the tc3589x with its own IRQ domain Lee Jones
2012-09-10 13:05   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-16 23:45   ` Samuel Ortiz
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 17/19] mfd: Enable the tc3589x for Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-10 13:08   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-16 23:45   ` Samuel Ortiz
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 18/19] gpio: Provide the tc3589x GPIO expander driver with an IRQ domain Lee Jones
2012-09-10 13:10   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-12 13:04     ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-14  8:14     ` Lee Jones
2012-09-12 21:21   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 11:14 ` [PATCH 19/19] gpio: Enable the tc3298x GPIO expander driver for Device Tree Lee Jones
2012-09-10 13:20   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-12 21:21   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-07 12:41 ` [PATCH 00/19] First HREF Device Tree enablement patch-set Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-07 13:01   ` Lee Jones
2012-09-07 13:58     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-07 14:22       ` Lee Jones
2012-09-10  8:41       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-10 10:13         ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-10 11:29           ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-10 13:49             ` Arnd Bergmann

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