[PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: dts: ti: k3: squelch warnings regarding no #address-cells for interrupt-controller

Nishanth Menon nm at ti.com
Mon Nov 23 20:21:00 EST 2020


On 09:45-20201123, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> >> The main reason I commented - is hope to get some clarification from DT maintainers.
> >> 90% of interrupt-controller nodes do not have #address-cells and I never seen in in GPIO nodes
> >> (most often is present in PCI and GIC nodes).
> >> and nobody seems fixing it. So, if we are going to move this direction it's reasonable to get clarification to be sure.
> >>
> >> And there is no "never" here - #address-cells always can be added if really required.
> > 
> > 
> > OK - as a GPIO node, but as an interrupt-controller node, I was
> > looking at [1] and wondering if that was the precedence.
> > 
> > Yes, will be good to get direction from the DT maintainers on this
> > topic.
> 
> Shall I respin this series with 2/4 dropped while we wait for decision
> on this?
> 
> #address-cells warnings on interrupt controller can perhaps be handled
> all at once (there are many of those in existing DT anyway).
> 
> GPIO is basic support and holds up many other modules (like MMC/SD).


There are'nt too many new patches in my queue that depends on GPIO, I'd
rather not introduce new warnings unless we are completely at a
stalemate. I'd rather use this opportunity to understand where what we
need to be doing.

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