On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:39:39AM +0530, Sricharan R wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Thursday 12 June 2014 06:26 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 05:23:13PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote: > >> From: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> > >> > >> Reverse the search algorithm to ensure that address mapping and IRQ > >> allocation logics are proper. This can open up new bugs which are > >> easily fixable rather than wait till allocation logic approaches > >> the limit to find new bugs. > > > > Could you expand on this logic some more? What class of bugs are you > > hoping to discover more easily? > > > > class 1. address space errors -> example: > reg = <a size_b> > ti,max-irqs = is a wrong parameter > > class 2: irq-reserved list - which decides which entries in the > address space is not actually wired in > > class 3: wrong list of routable-irqs. > > in general allocating from max to min tends to have benefits in > ensuring the different issues that may be present in dts is easily > caught at definition time, rather than at a later point in time. Perfect, thanks for clarifying. Please add this to the commit log when you respin. thx, Jason. -- 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
