[RFC PATCH 1/1] of/irq: create interrupts-extended-2 property

Grant Likely grant.likely at linaro.org
Wed Jan 15 09:56:52 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:47:25AM +0000, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>> The new interrupts-extended property, which reuses the phandle+arguments
>> pattern used by GPIOs and other core bindings, still have some issue.
>>
>> If an SoC have already specifiy interrupt and a board want to add specific
>> interrupt such as GPIO (which can be optionnal) be need to re-define
>> interrupts-extended. So allow to have an optionnale interrupts-extended-2
>> property.
>>
>
> NAK.
>
> This is a hack that works around a dts organisation issue. This is _not_
> a binding or parsing issue.
>
> Properties can be overridden - just describe all of the interrupts in
> the final dts file.

Agreed. The current binding handles the case of multiple interrupts just fine.

g.



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