Re: [RFT PATCH v2] gpiolib: allow gpio irqchip to map irqs dynamically

From: Grygorii Strashko
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 18:17:24 EST




On 10/09/2017 02:57 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
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.

patch posted.

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regards,
-grygorii