[PATCH 02/11] genirq: Export irq_to_desc() again to modules

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 19:29:25 PDT 2021



On 9/25/2021 2:00 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24 2021 at 10:05, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> In order to build drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c as a module (for use
>> in GKI), we need to export_to_desc() which is used in this snippet of
>> code:
>>
>> 	irqd_set_single_target(irq_desc_get_irq_data(irq_to_desc(virq)));
>>
>> This effectively reverts 64a1b95bb9fe ("genirq: Restrict export of
>> irq_to_desc()").
> 
> No. I'm not reexporting this. We've spent quite some time to prevent all
> kind of drivers for fiddle with irq descriptors and I'm not going
> to reopen that can of worms.
> 
> irq_get_irq_data() is exported and provides you what you need.

That is exactly what I was looking for and somehow missed it during my 
search the other day, thanks!
-- 
Florian



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