Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] MFD: Palmas: Check if interrupts property existsand then only request irq

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:22:41AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> If the device was instantiated from a board file *or* a device tree,
> i2c->irq is correctly set. Hence, checking that value works in both cases.

The same thing will happen with any other firmware interface that gets
introduced in the future - one of the goals with factoring all this out
into the bus code is that it means the driver doesn't need to have any
special handling.

> If you check the interrupts DT property, that will only work if the
> device was instantiated from device tree, and not if it was instantiated
> from a board file; the property will never exist in the board file case,
> and hence you'll never be able to have a board file provide an interrupt.

Exactly.

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