Re: [PATCH 8/9] of/i2c: Resolve interrupt references at probe time

[Wolfram Sang]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:32:05AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> Instead of resolving interrupt references at device creation time, delay
> resolution until probe time. At device creation time, there is nothing
> that can be done if an interrupt parent isn't ready yet, and the device
> will end up with an invalid interrupt number (0).
> 
> If the interrupt reference is resolved at probe time, the device's probe
> can be deferred, so that it's interrupt resolution can be retried after
> more devices (possibly including its interrupt parent) have been probed.
> 
> However, individual drivers shouldn't be required to do that themselves,
> over and over again, so this commit implements this functionality within
> the I2C core.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> index 29d3f04..163a1e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> @@ -236,6 +236,21 @@ int i2c_recover_bus(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>  	return adap->bus_recovery_info->recover_bus(adap);
>  }
>  
> +static int of_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

This function should be in the CONFIG_OF block.

> +{
> +	struct device_node *np = client->dev.of_node;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	/* skip if the device node specifies no interrupts */
> +	if (of_get_property(np, "interrupts", NULL)) {
> +		ret = of_irq_get(client->dev.of_node, 0, &client->irq);

of_irq_get really sounds as it does refcounting. +1 to change the name.

Thanks,

   Wolfram

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