On 2019-10-07 1:14 a.m., Marc Zyngier wrote:
On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:30:50 +0100,
Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
Hi Chris,
CC MarcZ
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:03 AM Chris Packham
<chris.pack...@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
Use the dev_name(dev) for the irqc->name so that we get unique names
when we have multiple instances of this driver.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.pack...@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
A while ago, Marc Zyngier pointed out that the irq_chip .name field
should contain the device's class name, not the instance's name.
Hence the current code is correct?
Thanks Geert for looping me in. The main reasons why I oppose this
kind of "let's show as much information as we can in /proc/interrupts"
are:
- It clutters the output badly: the formatting of this file, which is
bad enough when you have a small number of CPUs, becomes unreadable
when you have a large number of them *and* stupidly long strings
that only make sense on a given platform.
- Like it or not, /proc is ABI. We don't change things randomly there
without a good reason, and debugging isn't one of them.
- Debug information belongs to debugfs, where we already have plenty
of stuff (see CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS). I'd rather we improve
this infrastructure if needed, rather than add platform specific
hacks.
</rant>
Thanks,
M.
Thanks Marc/Geert. Sounds like we should drop patch 2 from series.
See also "[PATCH 0/4] irqchip: renesas: Use proper irq_chip name and parent"
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190607095858.10028-1-geert+rene...@glider.be/)
Note that the irqchip patches in that series have been applied; the gpio
patches haven't been applied yet.
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-iproc-gpio.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-iproc-gpio.c
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static int iproc_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct gpio_irq_chip *girq;
irqc = &chip->irqchip;
- irqc->name = "bcm-iproc-gpio";
+ irqc->name = dev_name(dev);
irqc->irq_ack = iproc_gpio_irq_ack;
irqc->irq_mask = iproc_gpio_irq_mask;
irqc->irq_unmask = iproc_gpio_irq_unmask;
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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