On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Marc Zyngier [off-list ref] wrote:

The irqdomain code is not entierely ACPI friendly, as it has some
built-in knowledge of the device-tree. Nothing too harmful, but enough
to scare the ARM ACPI developpers which end up with their own version
of the square wheel.

This small patch series adapts the irqdomain code to remove the
hurdles that prevent the full blown irqdomain subsystem to be used on
ACPI, creates an interface between the GSI layer and the irqdomain,
and as an example, convert the ARM GIC ACPI support to use irqdomains
as originally intended.

Overall, this gives us a way to use irqdomains on both DT and ACPI
enabled platforms, having very little changes made to the actual
drivers (other than the probing infrastructure). Because we keep the
flow of information between the various layers identical between ACPI
and DT, we immediately benefit from the existing infrastructure. The
"convert the GSI information to be DT friendly" is admitedly not very
pretty, but I see it as a stepping stone towards unifying the two
structures.

Did I miss v1-v3 or did the DT change just show up? I probably tuned
out with ACPI in the subject.

Needing fake DT nodes for ACPI is just wrong. There's got to be
another, better way.

Rob
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