On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:41:36AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > 2) We can go through every single interrupt controller's DT binding and > driver, and implement (document and parse) the new IRQ specifier flag > there, and pass it throgh the Linux IRQ stack, yet we still need code in > every IC driver to actually read the flag, so we haven't removed any > code. It seems /much/ simpler, and no more of a maintenance or > consistency burden, to just have the IC driver read the flag directly > from their own DT. Why does this have to be handled by the chip drivers? Can't the interrupt controller configured in a way that the chip drivers never need to see it at all, for example by adding a "override the mode for this input" flag inside the device?
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