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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2012-07-05 12:19:19 +0100
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2012-07-11 14:59:17 +0100
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irq_domain: Standardise legacy/linear domain selection
A large proportion of interrupt controllers that support legacy mappings do so because non-DT systems need to use fixed IRQ numbers when registering devices via buses but can otherwise use a linear mapping. The interrupt controller itself typically is not affected by the mapping used and best practice is to use a linear mapping where possible so drivers frequently select at runtime depending on if a legacy range has been allocated to them. Standardise this behaviour by providing irq_domain_register_simple() which will allocate a linear mapping unless a positive first_irq is provided in which case it will fall back to a legacy mapping. This helps make best practice for irq_domain adoption clearer. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ Linux IRQ number into the hardware.
Most drivers cannot use this mapping.
==== Legacy ====
+irq_domain_add_simple()
irq_domain_add_legacy()
irq_domain_add_legacy_isa()
@@ -115,3 +116,7 @@ The legacy map should only be used if fixed IRQ mappings must be
supported. For example, ISA controllers would use the legacy map for
mapping Linux IRQs 0-15 so that existing ISA drivers get the correct IRQ
numbers.
+
+Most users of legacy mappings should use irq_domain_add_simple() which
+will use a legacy domain only if an IRQ range is supplied by the
+system and will otherwise use a linear domain mapping.