Re: [patch 01/16] irqdomain: Introduce new interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomains

[Yun Wu (Abel)]

On 2014/11/24 22:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Yun Wu (Abel) wrote:
>> On 2014/11/24 21:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> In the hierarchical case we do not touch the hardware in the
>>> allocation step, so we need to activate the allocated interrupt in the
>>> hardware before we can use it. And that's clearly a domain interface
>>> not a irq chip issue.
>>>
>>
>> Makes sense, now the interrupt domain seems to be the best place.
>> And when the @domain parameter can be really useful? I haven't see
>> anyone using it so far.
> 
> All irqdomain callbacks take the domain pointer as their first
> parameter. So for consistency sake we made it that way.
> 
> You can argue in circles about whether the domain argument could be
> removed. It's going to stay for now as it does not matter at all.
> 

Yes, you are right.

Thanks,
	Abel

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