[PATCH V2] arm/tegra: convert tegra20 to GIC devicetree binding

Cousson, Benoit b-cousson at ti.com
Tue Nov 29 12:47:48 EST 2011


On 11/29/2011 6:13 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Cousson, Benoit wrote at Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:01 AM:
>> Hi Stephen&  Peter,
>>
>> On 11/29/2011 1:54 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> From: pdeschrijver at nvidia.com<pdeschrijver at nvidia.com>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> @@ -125,6 +131,14 @@ void __init tegra_init_irq(void)
>>>    	gic_arch_extn.irq_unmask = tegra_unmask;
>>>    	gic_arch_extn.irq_retrigger = tegra_retrigger;
>>>
>>> -	gic_init(0, 29, IO_ADDRESS(TEGRA_ARM_INT_DIST_BASE),
>>> -		 IO_ADDRESS(TEGRA_ARM_PERIF_BASE + 0x100));
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
>>> +	/* Check if there is a devicetree present as of_irq_init doesn't
>>> +	 * indicate if an interrupt controller node was found.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (of_find_node_by_path("/"))
>>> +		of_irq_init(tegra_irq_match);
>>> +	else
>>> +#endif
>>
>> For the same kind of need, I found the following API:
>>
>> of_have_populated_dt()
>>
>> Moreover, it returns false if !CONFIG_OF, so it will avoid the #ifdef.
>
> That sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, of_irq_init() is a DT-only
> function. Exynos has the following in mainline to solve this:
>
>          if (!of_have_populated_dt())
>                  gic_init_bases(...);
> #ifdef CONFIG_OF
>          else
>                  of_irq_init(exynos4_dt_irq_match);
> #endif
>
> Perhaps we should add a dummy of_irq_init() too, so that we can remove
> this ifdef.

Yes, indeed, I think that's much better. Most of_XXX APIs do have a 
dummy version, but for some reason some of them do not.
That one clearly deserve a dummy version.

Regards,
Benoit



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