Arnd, On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:08:05 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 18 February 2016 16:58:54 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > +- marvell,spi-base : List of GIC base SPI interrupts, one for each > > + ODMI frame. Those SPI interrupts are 0-based, > > + i.e marvell,spi-base = <128> will use SPI #96. > > + See > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic.txt > > + for details about the GIC Device Tree binding. > > > > Why are these not just in an 'interrupts' property as we do for other > nested irqchips?
I modeled this after the GICv2m bindings. I think the reason is that if we were to use the interrupts property, we should be listing *all* interrupts of the parent interrupt controller we are using. Which would be quite painful when your ODMI interrupt controller uses 32 interrupts of the parent controller (I think for the GICv2m, it's even more). I.e, we currently say: marvell,spi-base = <128>, <136>, <144>, <152> but in fact we are using 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, etc. until 159. If you think interrupts = <128>, <136>, <144>, <152> is still correct, then why not. But I believe this might be confusing, as people will think that we are only using interrupts 128, 136, 144 and 152, and not 129, 133, 147 or 158. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com