On 20/11/15 17:52, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: > Hi Rob, > > On 20.11.2015 18:58, Rob Herring wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 03:28:38AM +0200, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: >>> NXP LPC32xx has three interrupt controllers, namely root Main >>> Interrupt Controller (MIC) and two supplementary Sub Interrupt >>> Controllers (SIC1 and SIC2), four interrupt outputs from SIC1 and SIC2 >>> are connected to MIC. >>> >>> Also the change describes two additional optional properties: >>> * interrupt-controller-name - human readable name of an interrupt >>> controller, >> >> Why? compatible is human readable. If you don't like that, then put the >> string in the driver. > > in runtime I'd like to differentiate various IRQ chips by name. Here for > example I have one compatible "*-sic" and two actual IRQ chips SIC1 and > SIC2. If I read /proc/interrupts or /sys/kernel/debug/irq_domain_mapping > I would prefer to visualize interrupts from SIC1 and SIC2. > > I understand that this property is not hardware specific, but there are > plenty of similar properties like "label" etc. Probably renaming of the > property may help? You can always generate the name based on the probing order or the address. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
