Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:33:09 +0000 | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] of: platform: Skip mapping of interrupts in of_device_alloc() |
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On Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:00:44 +0000, "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The root of the issue is that all the resource allocation is done > > upfront, way before we even have a driver that could potentially > > deal with this device. This is a potential waste of resource, and > > it triggers the issue you noticed. > > > > If you delay the resource allocation until there is an actual > > match with a driver, you could have a per-driver flag telling you > > whether the IRQ allocation should be performed before the probe() > > function is called. > > > As suggested by Rob, if we switch the drivers to use > platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, n) call with > platform_get_irq() this code should go away and with this switch the > resource allocation will happen demand. Is this approach OK?
If you get rid of of_irq_to_resource_table() altogether, then yes, this has a fighting chance to work.
M.
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