[PATCH 01/12] mfd: twl-core: don't depend on pdata->irq_base/end

Felipe Balbi balbi at ti.com
Mon Mar 19 11:07:38 EDT 2012


Hi,

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 01:59:51PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Benoit Cousson <b-cousson at ti.com> writes:
> 
> > From: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
> >
> > With sparse IRQs the driver shouldn't depend at all on
> > any IRQ values coming from board-file.
> >
> > Remove every occurences of pdata->irq_base/end.
> 
> Well, not quite *every*. :)
> 
> If the driver isn't going to use those fields anymore, they should also
> be removed from the pdata struct too[1].  Also, the remaining board/init
> code that is initializing those fields should be removed as well[2], since
> it obviously has no effect.

indeed, but the idea was to decouple driver changes from arch/arm/*omap*
changes minimizing the oportunity of conflicts. So, e.g. on v3.4 we
change driver and on v3.5 we change board files.

-- 
balbi
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