[PATCH] of/platform: Fix no irq domain found errors when populating interrupts

[Paul Walmsley]

Hi Tony, Rob,

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com> wrote:
> > Hi Grant, Rob,
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Grant Likely wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:50:35 -0800, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> >> > > * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [131122 17:16]:
> >> > > > * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [131122 17:09]:
> >> > > > > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [131122 16:56]:
> >> > > > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 04:43:35PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >> > > > > > > +         /* See of_device_resource_notify for populating interrupts */
> >> > > > > > > +         for (i = 0; i < num_irq; i++, res++) {
> >> > > > > > > +                 res->flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ;
> >> > > > > > > +                 res->start = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> >> > > > > > > +                 res->end = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > NAK.  Definitely a bad idea to start introducing magic values other into
> >> > > > > > resources.  Please don't do this.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Do you have any better ideas on how to sort out this issue then?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I guess we could allocate all the resources lazily here, I'll take a look
> >> > > > at that.
> >> > >
> >> > > Here's a version that allocates the resources lazily with the notifier.
> >> > > Seems to boot, need to play with it a bit more though to make sure we're
> >> > > not overwriting resources for any legacy devices.
> >> >
> >> > Blurg. Using a notifier really feels like we don't have a good handle on
> >> > a reasonable solution yet. Basically it means we're hooking into the
> >> > driver core without /looking/ like we're hooking into the driver core. I
> >> > don't think this is any better, but I don't have a better suggestion at
> >> > the moment.   :-(
> >>
> >> Unfortunately this patch, or something that accomplishes the same results,
> >> is somewhat high-priority for us on OMAP.  OMAP37xx got prematurely
> >> converted to DT booting, and now dynamic power management is broken:
> >>
> >>     http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=138658294830408&w=2
> >>
> >> Tony writes that this patch is one of the two patches needed to get things
> >> working again:
> >>
> >>     http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=138660942506846&w=2
> >>
> >> Is it possible to get this patch, or something similar, merged for
> >> v3.13-rc?
> >>
> >> Once something like PM is broken, it's pretty easy for other broken
> >> patches to make it into the tree, since it becomes very difficult to test
> >> without turning into a maintainer denial-of-service attack.
> >
> > Ping.  Could you please provide some guidance here about what you'd need
> > to get this solved for v3.13-rc?
> 
> I agree with doing the platform_get_irq modification and feel free to
> add my ack. I'm going to be offline for the next week.

Thanks Rob!

Tony, would you consider sending this patch upstream for v3.13-rc along 
with your 37xxevm fix patches?


- Paul