[net-next: PATCH v2 5/5] net: mvpp2: enable ACPI support in the driver
Marcin Wojtas
mw at semihalf.com
Wed Jan 3 03:19:02 PST 2018
Graeme,
2018-01-03 12:16 GMT+01:00 <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 08:23:54PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > * Modify way of obtaining interrupts - with ACPI they are resources
>> > bound to struct platform_device and it's not possible to obtain
>> > them directly from the child node. Hence a formula is used, depending
>> > on the port_id and number of possible CPUs.
>>
>> Hi Marcin
>>
>> I know nothing about ACPI. Is this limitation with respect to
>> interrupts fundamental to ACPI, or just that nobody has implemented
>> flexible interrupt support yet?
>>
> The infrastructure is there to traverse trees of children, but I don't
> think there any helper functions.
>
Thanks, so if I implement such, do you expect any formal issues that
prevent its acceptance?
Best regards,
Marcin
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