Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:33:05 +0530 | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/48] Make the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro globally accessible |
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On Thursday 02 July 2015 04:02 AM, Joel Porquet wrote: > At the moment the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro is only declared locally in > 'drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h'. That prevents from using it directly in arch/* > directories whenever irqchip drivers only exist there, which happens in a few > cases (e.g. arc, arm, microblaze and mips). > > This patch makes the macro to be globally defined, in include/linux/irqchip.h, > and thus usable for arch-specific declarations of irqchip drivers. In this way, > it is very similar to what clocksource does (ie CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE is > defined in include/linux/clocksource.h). > > I split up everything into patches to make the integration easier. Please let me > know if it's not, and in such case how to make it better. > > For now, patch 01 of this series transfers the declaration of the macro > IRQCHIP_DECLARE to the global header 'include/linux/irqchip.h'. The following > patches, from 02 to 47, modify all the irqchip drivers that use IRQCHIP_DECLARE, > one by one. And finally, the last patch 48 removes the private and now useless > header 'drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h'.
Hi Joel,
I don't see the rest of series on lkml and/or the patch which touches arch/arc. Also, you may wanna redo this after 4.2-rc1 anyways. For ARC atleast, there's a new intc which would also require similar fixup. There might be others ....
Thx, -Vineet
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