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. Regards, Sricharan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
