Re: [net-next: PATCH v2 5/5] net: mvpp2: enable ACPI support in the driver

From: graeme . gregory
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 06:16:20 EST


On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 08:23:54PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > * Modify way of obtaining interrupts - with ACPI they are resources
> > bound to struct platform_device and it's not possible to obtain
> > them directly from the child node. Hence a formula is used, depending
> > on the port_id and number of possible CPUs.
>
> Hi Marcin
>
> I know nothing about ACPI. Is this limitation with respect to
> interrupts fundamental to ACPI, or just that nobody has implemented
> flexible interrupt support yet?
>
The infrastructure is there to traverse trees of children, but I don't
think there any helper functions.

Graeme

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