Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: Orion: DT support for IRQ and GPIO Controllers

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:58:01PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le Thu, 5 Jul 2012 11:48:24 +0200,
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> a ??crit :
> 
> > The biggest problem i had, is the interaction between generic chip
> > interrupts and irqdomain. There has been work to integrate the two,
> > but its stalled. Either the work needs restarting and completing, or
> > you need to throw away the use of generic interrupt so that you can
> > use irqdomain linear. IMHO, throwing away generic interrupt is the
> > wrong way.
> 
> Can you expand on why you think it would be wrong to throw away the
> usage of irq_chip_generic, compared to implementing directly an
> irq_chip?

Basically you are asking, why should i use the framework when i can do
it by hand.

What are the advantages if ignoring the framework and doing it by
hand?

   Andrew
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