Re: [RFC PATCH] of: platform: Skip mapping of interrupts in of_device_alloc()

[Marc Zyngier]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:00:44 +0000,
"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The root of the issue is that all the resource allocation is done
> > upfront, way before we even have a driver that could potentially
> > deal with this device. This is a potential waste of resource, and
> > it triggers the issue you noticed.
> >
> > If you delay the resource allocation until there is an actual
> > match with a driver, you could have a per-driver flag telling you
> > whether the IRQ allocation should be performed before the probe()
> > function is called.
> >
> As suggested by Rob, if we switch the drivers to use
> platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, n) call with
> platform_get_irq() this code should go away and with this switch the
> resource allocation will happen demand. Is this approach OK?

If you get rid of of_irq_to_resource_table() altogether, then yes,
this has a fighting chance to work.

	M.


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