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Message-ID: <3412e871-ae2b-bed0-88fb-2272f9db3af0@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:35:05 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Binbin Zhou <zhoubb.aaron@...il.com>
Cc:     Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@...ngson.cn>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        loongson-kernel@...ts.loongnix.cn, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, diasyzhang@...cent.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc:
 Fix warnings about liointc-2.0

On 30/08/2023 05:59, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2023/8/25 20:56, Krzysztof Kozlowski 写道:
> [...]
>> How did you sneak this property? The version - v2 - which was reviewed
>> by Rob:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190905144316.12527-7-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com/
>> did not have it.
>>
>> Now v3 suddenly appears with Rob's review and this property:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200112081416.722218-4-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com/
>>
>> Please help me understand this property appeared there and how did you
>> get it reviewed?
> Hi all,
> 
> It has been some years since this series was merged.
> My vague memory tells me there was some off-list discussion made in IRC with
> linux-arch folks and IRQ folks to come up with this binding design.

We would not suggest you property which in the name has underscores and
duplicates interrupt-map property.

> 
> In this case I guess I forgot to drop Rob's R-b tag when updating this patch
> between reversions. I  apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.


> 
>>
>>>                                                  <0xffffffff>, /* int1 */
>>>                                                  <0x00000000>, /* int2 */
>>>                                                  <0x00000000>; /* int3 */
>> So now you will keep bringing more hacks for a hacky property. No, this
>> cannot go on.
> 
> What's the best way, in your opinion, to overhaul this property? As we don't
> really care backward compatibility of DTBs on those systems we can just 
> redesign it.

Deprecate the property in the bindings, allow driver to work with or
without it and finally drop it entirely from DTS.
> 
> A little bit background about this property, LIOINTC can route a 
> interrupt to any of
> 4 upstream core interrupt pins. Downstream interrupt devicies should not 
> care about
> which pin the interrupt go but we want to leave a knob in devicetree for 
> performance
> tuning. So we designed such property that use masks corresponding to 
> each upsteam
> interrupt pins to tell where should a interrupt go.


Best regards,
Krzysztof

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