Re: [PATCH] of/platform: Fix no irq domain found errors whenpopulating interrupts

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Dec 31 2013 - 11:34:06 EST


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Grant, Rob,
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Grant Likely wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:50:35 -0800, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > * Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [131122 17:16]:
>> > > > * Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [131122 17:09]:
>> > > > > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [131122 16:56]:
>> > > > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 04:43:35PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> > > > > > > + /* See of_device_resource_notify for populating interrupts */
>> > > > > > > + for (i = 0; i < num_irq; i++, res++) {
>> > > > > > > + res->flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ;
>> > > > > > > + res->start = -EPROBE_DEFER;
>> > > > > > > + res->end = -EPROBE_DEFER;
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > NAK. Definitely a bad idea to start introducing magic values other into
>> > > > > > resources. Please don't do this.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Do you have any better ideas on how to sort out this issue then?
>> > > >
>> > > > I guess we could allocate all the resources lazily here, I'll take a look
>> > > > at that.
>> > >
>> > > Here's a version that allocates the resources lazily with the notifier.
>> > > Seems to boot, need to play with it a bit more though to make sure we're
>> > > not overwriting resources for any legacy devices.
>> >
>> > Blurg. Using a notifier really feels like we don't have a good handle on
>> > a reasonable solution yet. Basically it means we're hooking into the
>> > driver core without /looking/ like we're hooking into the driver core. I
>> > don't think this is any better, but I don't have a better suggestion at
>> > the moment. :-(
>>
>> Unfortunately this patch, or something that accomplishes the same results,
>> is somewhat high-priority for us on OMAP. OMAP37xx got prematurely
>> converted to DT booting, and now dynamic power management is broken:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=138658294830408&w=2
>>
>> Tony writes that this patch is one of the two patches needed to get things
>> working again:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=138660942506846&w=2
>>
>> Is it possible to get this patch, or something similar, merged for
>> v3.13-rc?
>>
>> Once something like PM is broken, it's pretty easy for other broken
>> patches to make it into the tree, since it becomes very difficult to test
>> without turning into a maintainer denial-of-service attack.
>
> Ping. Could you please provide some guidance here about what you'd need
> to get this solved for v3.13-rc?

I agree with doing the platform_get_irq modification and feel free to
add my ack. I'm going to be offline for the next week.

Rob
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