Re: [PATCH] spmi-pmic-arb: add irq tracepoints to the pmic-arb driver

[Stephen Boyd]

On 05/27, Ankit Gupta wrote:
> >
> > How is this any better than irq tracepoints that we already have for
> > generic irqs?
> >
> It is better than generic irq tracepoints because it provides bus specific
> information (sid and address(pid) of slave write), driver specific
> information (apid (pmic-peripheral) and func_num) and statistics (apid
> range).
> Recall that *slave* read/write cannot be traced by the spmi framework ftrace.
> 

Don't we already get all this information based on how we map
interrupts to devices in DT? It feels to me that the same
argument here could be applied to all the random gpio expanders
and chained interrupt controllers that we support in the kernel.

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