[RFCv2 PATCH 1/8] irqdomain: Introduce irq_domain_ops.init_alloc_info

[Suravee Suthikulpanit]

On 7/21/15 04:28, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
>
>> Currently, when calling irq_domain_alloc_irqs() on ARM64, it uses
>> struct of_phandle_args to pass irq information. However, this is not
>> appropriate for ACPI since of_phandle_args is specific to DT.
>>
>> Therefore, this patch introduces a new function pointer,
>> irq_domain_ops.init_alloc_info, which can be used by irqchips to provide
>> a way to initialize irqchip-specific data-structure for allocating IRQ.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit at amd.com>
>> ---
>> NOTE:
>> Similarly, x86 is currently using struct irq_alloc_info
>> (see arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h) and each irq_domain has different
>> way of initializing this structure.
>
> And why don't you use the same mechanism on ARM and have a private
> irq_alloc_info implementation which can carry either DT or ACPI
> information?

Let me look further into this. I would like to take a similar approach here.

Suravee

> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
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