linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/2] PCI: Introduce MSI chip infrastructure

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Date:	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:29:57 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
Cc:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] PCI: Introduce MSI chip infrastructure

On Monday 25 March 2013, Thierry Reding wrote:
> I think you can just make this:
> 
>         mpic: interrupt-controller@...20000 {
>                 ...
>         };
> 
>         ...
> 
>         soc {
>                 pcie-controller {
>                         marvell,msi = <&mpic>;
>                 };
>         };
> 
> And everything else should just work given the APIs I mentioned. But as
> you said it'd be good if somebody else could share their opinion about
> this.


I think the property referring to the msi controller should have a fixed
name, such as "msi-parent", to go along with "interrupt-parent".
Similarly, I would suggest using an empty "msi-controller" property
to mark the controller that is capable of serving MSIs. The Linux
implementation doesn't currently require the "interrupt-controller"
property, but I think it's good to stay close to the original interrupt
binding here for consistency.

	Arnd
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