Re: interrupts or interrupts-extended ?

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On Thursday 30 April 2015 14:57:19 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hello, device tree folks,
> 
> 
> Can I ask a little piece of advice?
> 
> Which is a preferred way for specifying an interrupt property,
> interrupt-parent & interrupts, or interrupts-extended ?
> 
> 
> There is only one interrupt controller on my SoC,
> so I think either should work enough for me.
> 

interrupts is well-understood by more people, I would pick that one normally,
unless there is a need.

The main purpose of interrupts-extended is to allow one device to have
multiple interrupts that are handled by different controllers, without
introducing a (more complex) interrupt-map property in the parent.

	Arnd
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