Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] irqdomain: support three-cell scheme interrupts

[Yixun Lan <dlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Linus Walleij:

On 08:31 Tue 04 Mar     , Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM Yixun Lan <dlan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 19:30 Sun 02 Mar     , Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > > Why is the three cell translation not following the one/two cell scheme
> > > and has the parameters at the same place (index 0,1), i.e. adding the
> > > extra information at the end? That makes sense to me as the extra cell
> > > is obviously not directly related to the interrupt mapping.
> >
> > I think we currently just following the scheme with gpio cells order
> > scheme, which is (index(instance) offset flag..), the index and offset
> > are parameters to locate the irq which can easily derive from global
> > gpio pin number, so I thought it's more intuitive to group them
> > orderly together..
> 
> Right, the DT bindings are mainly for human consumption, and the
> cells are positioned in left-to-right intuitive order.
> 
> If they were only for machines it would be another issue, but it's
> people who have to write and maintain these files.
> 
> For example, in a library a machine could arrange books by
> first letter in the title, then by second letter in the title etc, but
> that would be very confusing for humans who expect to find
> them in author order.
> 
> There are many examples of this in the DT bindings.
> 
Ok, I got your idea.. thanks
I will rework the patch to address Thomas's concern

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 

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