[PATCH v4 3/5] ARM: tegra: Initialize interrupt controller from DT

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday 30 August 2014 11:54:59 Jason Cooper wrote:
> > I have to admit I don't really understand how these work, but what
> > I'd expect to work better is a way to turn the gic code into more
> > of a library that can be used by specialized drivers. In that
> > case you would register a driver for the tegra gic using IRQCHIP_DECLARE
> > and that driver would call a variation of gic_of_init() or gic_init_bases()
> > with the extra stuff as arguments.
> > 
> > We'd have to hack around the fact that all these platforms currently
> > don't list a specialized compatible string, but at least for the future
> > we should be able to do this without special hacks.
> 
> Thomas was talking about this just the other day:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1408271347210.3323@nanos

Ah, cool. That seems better than what I had in mind. Yes, let's do that.

	Arnd