Re: [PATCH] input: joystick: Adding Austria Microsystem AS5011joystick driver

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sat Nov 27 2010 - 03:19:23 EST


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Fabien Marteau wrote:
> >
> > Just why does it have to be separately allocated? I'd even stick with
> > "as5011" for all IRQ names.
>
> I thought that irq name should be different for each IRQ used under device and
> for each device used in system. I can use the same irq name if I've got several
> as5011 joystick in the same system ?

No, it's just a tag shown in /proc/interrupts and a few other places.
Simply a driver name would work splendidly.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/