linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/48] Make the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro globally accessible

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:33:05 +0530
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Joel Porquet <joel@...quet.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/48] Make the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro globally accessible

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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