Re: [RFT PATCH v2] gpiolib: allow gpio irqchip to map irqs dynamically
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 15:58:05 EST
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> At the moment it was merged there were no user of irq_base except gpio-mockup.c.
OK I feel calmer.
> And actually there are shouldn't as calling irq_create_mapping() in cycle
> will not guarantee sequential Linux IRQ numbers allocation.
Yeah. I always felt that was bad practice.
But we should really kill off that irq_base member from gpio_chip. It looks
dangerous to have arond.
Yours,
Linus Walleij