Re: MPIC cleanup series
From: Kyle Moffett <hidden>
Date: 2011-11-28 20:48:28
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:
Overall I really look your series. It doesn't quite apply cleanly anymore so I'll as you for a new shoot after you address the comments below, at which point, if you're fast enough, I'll stick it in -next :-)
Awesome! Thanks! As I mentioned before, I have precious little of the hardware to test this all on, so I hope I don't break anything. At minimum I need to do a final build-and-run test on my e500 boards before I send it out. :-D
Just a couple of comments on some of the patches: =C2=A0- 5/10: search for open-pic device-tree node if NULL The idea is fine, however most callers ignore the device-type and only compare on compatible, while you replace that with a match entry that seems to require matching on both. This is likely to break stuff. The "type" part of te march entry should be NULL I believe.
If you re-read that, the match table used if no of_node is passed in has *two* separate entries, one of them with a "type" and the other with a "compatible", as opposed to a single entry which matches both "type" and "compatible". There are a lot of callers which do: dnp =3D of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "open-pic"); So I doubt I can remove the "type" entry all together, unfortunately.
=C2=A0- 9/10: cache the node of_node_get() is your friend.
Yes, I actually messed this one up in the prior patch too, thanks for noticing. It should all be fixed now.
=C2=A0- 10/10: Makes me a bit nervous. It 'looks' right but I wouldn't be=
t on
Apple device-trees being sane vs. chaining. I would like a test that doesn't do the cascade if the mpic is a primary to at least limit the risk of messup.
Oh, you mean to wrap that block like this?
if (mpic->flags & MPIC_SECONDARY) {
virq =3D irq_of_parse_and_map(mpic->node, 0);
...
}
Sure, makes sense to me. I've made that change.
Thanks for the review!
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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