Re: [PATCH] MFD: ab8500: pass AB8500 IRQ to debugfs code by resource

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Apr 12 2013 - 09:43:59 EST


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 12 April 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Friday 12 April 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> >> Actually, well, this one IRQ (the one I start to pass) is already
>> >> domain-mapped to the global IRQ numberspace, so that one will
>> >> be correct.
>> >
>> > I don't know if we're talking about the same thing here.
>> >
>> > My point was that passing a domain-mapped IRQ number into mfd_add_devices
>> > with another domain will result in the attempt to map that number into
>> > another domain, which does not work.
>>
>> Ah, yes you're right ... now I need to find some other way
>> to pass this resource ... hm.
>
> What is it actually needed for? In the code I'm looking at in linux-next
> it only gets passed to a function that ignores it.

Well that is a __attribute((weak)) function. It is overridden
by suspend/resume code in the machine to ask the suspend
code whether the AB8500 woke the system up.

Arguably not such a nice design :-/

However that suspend code is being posted to the linux-pm
mailinglist as we speak, so I don't want to make their life
miserable by just deleting some hook they're actually using
for testing.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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