[PATCH 15/19] mfd: Don't convert just one IRQ using irqdomain if a range is provided

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Sep 7 08:35:41 EDT 2012


On Friday 07 September 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
> MFD core code attempts to convert specified hardware (local) IRQ
> numbers to virtual-IRQs, which something Linux can understand. This
> works great when only one IRQ is specified. However, converting
> entire ranges is currently unsupported. If this occurs we issue a
> kernel warning to inform the user of this, but we continue to
> convert the first specified IRQ anyway and replace the range. This
> is not the correct behaviour. This patch ensures that if a range
> is specified, it is left untouched.
> 
> CC: Samuel Ortiz <sameo at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>

I don't see the advantage of the change. The warning already tells
us that the input to mfd_add_device was incorrect, so nothing the
function does can reliably fix it. Leaving the resource empty
is just as wrong as listing only the first interrupt.

	Arnd



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