Re: [PATCH 1/1] Input: ab8500-ponkey: Make the distinction betweenDT and non-DT boots

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 07:40:38 EST


On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:49:52AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:04:12AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> > During non-DT boot:
> > - Platform data is passed, which contains an IRQ base
> > - If an IRQ base is requested we use it to register a Legacy IRQ Domain
> > - MFD adds the IRQ base to the hwirq and registers it as a virq
>
> Just don't do this step - the only reason to do it is for mapping back
> into a linear domain but if you're going to do this...
>
> > - AB8500 child devices use *_get_virq() to convert virq to virq - *ERROR*
>
> ...then it's redundant. The mapping functions in the domain code
> replace this functionality.

No, the other way round. This is now required all the time.

Now we force the use of hwirq, the driver needs to convert that into a
virq before requesting the resource. So we need to put *_get_virq()'s into
every child device that requests an IRQ.

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