linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] MIPS: Replace setup_irq() by request

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Message-ID: <20200314065548.GB5285@afzalpc>
Date:   Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:25:48 +0530
From:   afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Keguang Zhang <keguang.zhang@...il.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] MIPS: Replace setup_irq() by request_irq()

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:02:49PM +0530, afzal mohammed wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:03:07PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> > in your patch. How can we make sure they are unique enough for the use
> > case ? I guess using handler as dev_id does a better job here.
> 
> There was one prior similar usage using string pointers, another way i
> have seen is using irq no. itself, 

Huh, that was a total nonsense statement from me, considering the
expectation of a unique dev_id, i don't know what i was thinking at
that time, though you mentioned about uniqueness.

Regards
afzal