[PATCH 1/3] irqchip: add basic infrastructure

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Oct 27 15:21:17 EDT 2012


On Saturday 27 October 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> With the recent creation of the drivers/irqchip/ directory, it is
> desirable to move irq controller drivers here. At the moment, the only
> driver here is irq-bcm2835, the driver for the irq controller found in
> the ARM BCM2835 SoC, present in Rasberry Pi systems. This irq
> controller driver was exporting its initialization function and its
> irq handling function through a header file in
> <linux/irqchip/bcm2835.h>.

Very nice series!

I think it would be good if Thomas Gleixner as the IRQ subsystem maintainer
could have a look as well. We should probably add the drivers/irqchip
directory to that MAINTAINERS entry.

	Arnd



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