[PATCH v2 2/6] PCI: tegra: use new OF interrupt mapping when possible

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas at google.com
Wed Apr 16 09:29:31 PDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:20:45AM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2014, 12:30 -0600 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:07:34PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > > Hi Bjorn,
> > > 
> > > Am Freitag, den 04.04.2014, 10:55 -0600 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:25:47PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > > > > This is the recommended method of doing the IRQ
> > > > > mapping. For old devicetrees we fall back to the
> > > > > previous practice.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
> > > > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > > > 
> > > > Applied with Stephen's Tested-by to my pending/host-tegra branch.  I'll
> > > > rebase and rename it after v3.15-rc1, and I think we can squeeze it into
> > > > v3.15 shortly after that.  Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Are you still planning to push this into 3.15, or has this slipped to
> > > 3.16?
> > 
> > Yes, I'm hoping to put them in v3.15.  I assume these actually
> > fix something, e.g., we need these changes to boot with new devicetrees, or
> > something?
> > 
> > The changelogs don't make it clear that these are fixes, and I want to heed
> > Linus' guidance: "Anyway, because -rc1 is already pretty darn big, I do
> > *not* want to hear about 'sorry this missed the window, can I still sneak
> > in'.  Fixes only."
> > 
> > I should have applied these sooner to make the merge window; I apologize
> > for that.  Anyway, if you outline what these fix, I'll update the
> > changelogs in my tree.
> > 
> Actually they are a bit on the fence.
> 
> The i.MX and thus the designware patch actually fixes wrong behavior,
> where all PCI legacy interrupts would be mapped to a single GIC
> interrupt, which would leave INT B,C,D nonfunctional on i.MX.
> 
> The others only make DT interrupt mapping functional for all drivers, so
> they would be useful if you need to remap interrupts across bridges or
> something. But apparently nobody had the need to to this on platforms
> other than i.MX until now, so those patches only fix a theoretical
> issue.

It sounds like the others should fix real problems; it's just that nobody
has actually tested relevant configurations yet.  I think that's fair game,
so I updated the changelogs and put them in my for-linus branch for v3.15.

This includes the designware, rcar, and tegra patches.

Bjorn



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