linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] of/irq: Add msi-parent check to of_msi

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Message-ID: <20251014222940.GA913235@bhelgaas>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:29:40 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
	Frank Li <Frank.Li@....com>,
	Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Wilczyński <kwilczynski@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] of/irq: Add msi-parent check to of_msi_xlate()

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:58:42AM +0200, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> In some legacy platforms the MSI controller for a PCI host bridge is
> identified by an msi-parent property whose phandle points at an MSI
> controller node with no #msi-cells property, that implicitly means

Looks like you intended to continue the sentence here?

> For such platforms, mapping a device ID and retrieving the MSI controller
> node becomes simply a matter of checking whether in the device hierarchy
> there is an msi-parent property pointing at an MSI controller node with
> such characteristics.
> 
> Add a helper function to of_msi_xlate() to check the msi-parent property in
> addition to msi-map and retrieve the MSI controller node (with a 1:1 ID
> deviceID-IN<->deviceID-OUT  mapping) to provide support for deviceID
> mapping and MSI controller node retrieval for such platforms.