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Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Walleij
023bba3638 irqdomain: update documentation
This updates the IRQdomain documentation a bit, by adding a more
verbose explanation to why we need this, and by adding some
extended documentation of the irq_domain_simple() usecase.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2012-12-05 23:52:10 +00:00
Mark Brown
781d0f46d8 irq_domain: Standardise legacy/linear domain selection
A large proportion of interrupt controllers that support legacy mappings
do so because non-DT systems need to use fixed IRQ numbers when registering
devices via buses but can otherwise use a linear mapping. The interrupt
controller itself typically is not affected by the mapping used and best
practice is to use a linear mapping where possible so drivers frequently
select at runtime depending on if a legacy range has been allocated to
them.

Standardise this behaviour by providing irq_domain_register_simple() which
will allocate a linear mapping unless a positive first_irq is provided in
which case it will fall back to a legacy mapping. This helps make best
practice for irq_domain adoption clearer.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2012-07-11 14:59:17 +01:00
Grant Likely
7ab3a837ad irq_domain: add documentation and MAINTAINERS entry.
Documentation for irq_domain library which will be created in subsequent
patches.

v4: editorial changes

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2012-02-14 14:06:47 -07:00