[PATCH 0/3] of: Add support for named irq and reg

Cousson, Benoit b-cousson at ti.com
Mon Dec 19 08:50:49 EST 2011


Hi Grant and Rob,

Gentle ping: Do you have some comment on that series?

Thanks,
Benoit

On 12/5/2011 3:23 PM, Benoit Cousson wrote:
> Hi Grant&  Rob,
>
> Following the previous patch submission [1], here is an updated series
> that adds the support for both reg and irq names.
> A small improvement is done as well on the property with multiple strings
> helper function.
>
> Please note that I've just realized that Russell's concern with the
> /proc/iomem readability might not even be valid in the DT case.
> I might be wrong, but it looks like devices created by of_device_alloc
> does not seems to call the insert_resource. It means that the /proc/iomem
> is mostly empty when the devices are created from device tree blob.
> I'm not sure it was done on purpose, but even if this is not the case,
> the fact is that this /proc/iomem entry does not seems to be used
> extensively.
> That does not mean it cannot be improved, but it should change the urgency
> to fix that with regards to that series.
>
> This series is based on 3.2-rc4 and is available here:
> git://gitorious.org/omap-pm/linux.git for_3.3/resource-names
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Auto comment: I'm not super happy with these new properties name because it
> is not really consistent. If you have any better idea, do not hesitate.
>
> Thanks,
> Benoit
>
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg57881.html
>
>
> Benoit Cousson (3):
>    of/base: Take NULL string into account for property with multiple strings
>    of/address: Add reg-names property to name an iomem resource
>    of/irq: Add interrupts-names property to name an irq resource
>
>   .../devicetree/bindings/interrupts-names.txt       |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reg-names.txt    |   48 +++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/of/address.c                               |   16 ++++--
>   drivers/of/base.c                                  |    8 +--
>   drivers/of/irq.c                                   |   11 ++++-
>   5 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupts-names.txt
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reg-names.txt




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