Re: [PATCH] of/irq: Add a quirk for controllers with their own definition of interrupt-map

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Tue Nov 30 2021 - 13:37:16 EST


On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:52:21 +0000,
"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 6:33 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > interrupts would work just fine here:
> >
> > interrupts = <GIC_SPI 4 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 5 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 6 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 7 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 8 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 9 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 10 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <GIC_SPI 11 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> >
> > We don't need a different solution for N:1 interrupts from N:M. Sure,
> > that could become unweldy if there are a lot of interrupts (just like
> > interrupt-map), but is that an immediate problem?
> >
> It's just that with this approach the driver will have to index the
> interrupts instead of reading from DT.
>
> Marc - is it OK with the above approach?

Anything that uses standard properties in a standard way works for me.

M.

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