Re: [PATCH v2 09/19] genirq: Add a new function to get IPI reverse mapping

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
> 
> While trying to get my remoteproc driver work with this I uncovered a problem
> with this approach.
> 
> mips-gic doesn't store the actual hwirq in the irq_data. It uses
> GIC_SHARED_TO_HWIRQ() and GIC_HWIRQ_TO_SHARED() to add and remove an offset.

Why can't MIPS store the real hwirq number in irq_data?
 
Thanks,

	tglx