Re: [PATCH] Describe interrupts-extended property

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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Correcting Grant's email.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The interrupts-extended property is a common property used when
>> interrupt generating devices having interrupt lines in several interrupt
>> controllers with possibly distinct interrupt specifiers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I assume this is mostly copied from the kernel documentation. This
> needs Grant's ack as the kernel documentation license is ambiguous
> (default GPL) and the spec is Apache.

Looks fine to me. I've pulled it in.

Thanks,
g.

>
>> ---
>>  source/devicetree-basics.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/source/devicetree-basics.rst b/source/devicetree-basics.rst
>> index be80af3d825b..1bda0fa54e7a 100644
>> --- a/source/devicetree-basics.rst
>> +++ b/source/devicetree-basics.rst
>> @@ -955,6 +955,40 @@ Description:
>>     to the interrupt parent. If this property is missing from a device, its
>>     interrupt parent is assumed to be its devicetree parent.
>>
>> +interrupts-extended
>> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> +
>> +Property: ``interrupts-extended``
>> +
>> +Value type: ``<phandle> <prop-encoded-array>``
>> +
>> +Description:
>> +
>> +   The *interrupts-extended* property of a device node defines the interrupt or
>> +   the interrupts that are generated by the device. In case where an interrupt
>
> In the case...
>
>> +   generating devices has several interrupt lines, some of them having distinct
>
> s/devices/device/
>
>> +   interrupt parents, the *interrupts-extended* property should be used to
>> +   fully describe the interrupts of this device, relative to the interrupt
>> +   controller(s), which is encoded by the phandle part of the property. The non
>> +   phandle part of the property encodes the interrupt specifiers and obeys to
>> +   the *interrupts* property description.
>> +
>> +   If both *interrupts-extended* and *interrupts* properties are present, the
>> +   *interrupts-extended* properties takes precedence, and the *interrupts*
>> +   property may be provided to a client program for compatibility purposes.
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +
>> +   A device with several interrupt lines in distinct interrupt controllers,
>> +   having different interrupt specifiers is illustrated below. In this example
>> +   ``pic`` is an interrupt controller with an *#interrupt-cells* specifier
>> +   of 2, while ``gic`` is an interrupt controller with an *#interrupts-cells*
>> +   specifier of 1.
>> +
>> +
>> +      ``interrupts-extended = <&pic 0xA 8>, <&gic 0xda>;``
>> +
>> +
>>  Properties for Interrupt Controllers
>>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
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