[PATCH v4] Introduce irqchip infrastructure

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Nov 29 15:27:12 EST 2012


On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:00:51 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a set of patches that introduces a small irqchip
> infrastructure that allows the registration of irqchip drivers without
> having each of those drivers to expose a public API and header in
> include/linux/irqchip/, and moves a number of existing irqchip
> controller to this infrastructure.
> 
> This new version (detailed changelog below) provides a number of
> improvements: usage of a special link section to avoid the central
> registration in irqchip.{c,h} of all irqchip drivers, and addition of
> the GIC, VIC and Versatile FPGA IRQ drivers move, thanks to Rob
> Herring and Linus Walleij.

Hey Thomas,

This looks pretty darn sensible. Good job.

I've not reviewed deeply, but you can add my:

Reviewed-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>

g.




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