[PATCHv3 2/6] arm64: don't use GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Mar 15 19:28:03 GMT 2021


On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:56:25AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> From: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> 
> In subsequent patches we want to allow irqchip drivers to register as
> FIQ handlers, with a set_handle_fiq() function. To keep the IRQ/FIQ
> paths similar, we want arm64 to provide both set_handle_irq() and
> set_handle_fiq(), rather than using GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER for the
> former.

Having looked through the series I do not understand this rationale
at all.  You've only added the default_handle_irq logic, which seems
perfectly suitable and desirable for the generic version.  Please
don't fork off generic code for no good reason.



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