[PATCH 1/3] irqchip: add basic infrastructure

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Sat Oct 27 17:31:43 EDT 2012


On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 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.

I skimmed over the patches and they look very reasonable. I try to
find a time slot to give it a more thorough look.

So: Tentatively-acked-by-me



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