Re: [RFC PATCH V2 6/8] irqchip/gic: Assign irqchip dynamically

From: Jon Hunter
Date: Fri Dec 18 2015 - 05:26:32 EST



On 17/12/15 11:00, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> On 17/12/15 10:48, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> Dynamically assign the irqchip structure for each GIC controller
>> instance. This is necessary in order to populate the "dev" member
>> of the irqchip structure for GIC instances that require runtime
>> power management support. This also allows us to populate a unique
>> name for each GIC controller.
>>
>> This is based upon a patch by Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is going to clash horribly with the version I've pulled into my tree:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/commit/?h=irq/gic-4.5&id=58b8964990dc6b59198b25337624b8518cb1dd87
>
> so you may want to have a look at this. I don't think it will affect the
> work you are doing in a major may though.

Ok, great. I was wondering if this change has been queued somewhere. It
is not too different from mine, however, AFAICT you could get rid of the
gic_eoimode1_chip structure, as I have done, as it is mostly the same as
gic_chip.

Cheers
Jon


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