[PATCH 1/1] Input: ab8500-ponkey: Make the distinction between DT and non-DT boots

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Aug 8 09:17:14 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:40:38PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:49:52AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > >  - MFD adds the IRQ base to the hwirq and registers it as a virq

> > Just don't do this step - the only reason to do it is for mapping back
> > into a linear domain but if you're going to do this...

> > >  - AB8500 child devices use *_get_virq() to convert virq to virq - *ERROR*

> > ...then it's redundant.  The mapping functions in the domain code
> > replace this functionality.

> No, the other way round. This is now required all the time.

> Now we force the use of hwirq, the driver needs to convert that into a
> virq before requesting the resource. So we need to put *_get_virq()'s into
> every child device that requests an IRQ.

Yes, that's exactly what I said - and as a result of doing this the
remapping in the MFD core becomes redundant.



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