linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uio_pdrv: Unique IRQ Mode

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Message-ID: <20080605113341.GA23296@digi.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:33:41 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>
To:	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
CC:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"lethal@...ux-sh.org" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio_pdrv: Unique IRQ Mode

Hello Magnus,

Magnus Damm wrote:
> >> I don't think the board support level is the
> >> proper place for this code.
> >
> > You have to write code there anyway, e.g. code that configures your GPIO
> > as input, makes it generate interrupts and so on. And of course, you
> > have to setup your platform device as well. If you simply add the irq
> > handler, you can use uio_pdrv as-is. And if you _know_ that on your
> > platform the irq is not shared, this might really be a one-liner that
> > simply calls irq_disable. That's OK in board specific code, but not in a
> > generic driver.
> 
> Ever heard about system on chip? Not all platform devices need board
> specific setup.
> 
> >> The patch contains no board specific code,
> >> and it is independent of both architecture and cpu model.
> >
> > Every platform device driver depends on board support.
> 
> Is that so?
This depends on the definition of "board support".  I think of it as
"code for that (type of) machine", i.e. everything below arch/.  With
that definition really each platform device depends on "board support"
because some code have to create and provide the platform_device.

>             I suggest that you have a look at the mfd drivers and think again.
I haven't done that though.

Best regards
Uwe

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