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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mfd: wm831x: Convert to irq_domain
Hi Mark,

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:18:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> The modern idiom is to use irq_domain to allocate interrupts. This is
> useful partly to allow further infrastructure to be based on the domains
> and partly because it makes it much easier to allocate virtual interrupts
> to devices as we don't need to allocate a contiguous range of interrupt
> numbers.
>
> Convert the wm831x driver over to this infrastructure, using a legacy
> IRQ mapping if an irq_base is specified in platform data and otherwise
> using a linear mapping, always registering the interrupts even if they
> won't ever be used. Only boards which need to use the GPIOs as
> interrupts should need to use an irq_base.
>
> This means that we can't use the MFD irq_base management since the
> unless we're using an explicit irq_base from platform data we can't rely
> on a linear mapping of interrupts. Instead we need to map things via
> the irq_domain - provide a conveniencem function wm831x_irq() to save a
> small amount of typing when doing so. Looking at this I couldn't clearly
> see anything the MFD core could do to make this nicer.
>
> Since we're not supporting device tree yet there's no meaningful
> advantage if we don't do this conversion in one, the fact that the
> interrupt resources are used for repeated IP blocks makes accessor
> functions for the irq_domain more trouble to do than they're worth.
I applied this one manually, let's see which merge conflicts we get during the
merge window.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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