linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3] irqchip: Add support for Tango interrupt controller

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Message-ID: <yw1x37tpmueo.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:49:19 +0000
From:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>
To:	Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com>
Cc:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Sebastian Frias <sf84@...oste.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] irqchip: Add support for Tango interrupt controller

Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com> writes:

> On 22/01/2016 17:39, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>
>> Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 22/01/2016 17:35, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> With your latest patch, can I drop the ranges property?
>>>>
>>>> Why would you want to do that?
>>>
>>> <confused> I thought that was the whole point of the v4 improvement?
>> 
>> The point was to make it work right *if* someone were to do that even
>> though having it there better reflects what the hardware actually looks
>> like.
>
> That's the part I'm struggling to understand. Who other than you or me
> would write a device tree from scratch for this interrupt controller?

I wouldn't discount the possibility.

-- 
Måns Rullgård