Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:33:24 -0600 | Subject | Re: genirq: Ensure we locate the passed IRQ in irq_alloc_descs() |
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:42:33PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mark Brown > >> > I'm not really sure what an IRQ domain is (the patch series you pointed >> > at before does rather appear to assume one knows already) > >> (obviously I need to write some documentation). irq_domains is some >> infrastructure to make managing a range of irq numbers easier, and >> also to handle the mapping of hw irq numbers to linux irq numbers. > > Hrm, in that case it sounds rather like a lot of interrupt controllers > ought to be making themselves IRQ domains?
yup, and I'll probably craft patches for RFC to do exactly that when I've got irq_domains sorted out.
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