On Friday 07 September 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
> MFD core code attempts to convert specified hardware (local) IRQ
> numbers to virtual-IRQs, which something Linux can understand. This
> works great when only one IRQ is specified. However, converting
> entire ranges is currently unsupported. If this occurs we issue a
> kernel warning to inform the user of this, but we continue to
> convert the first specified IRQ anyway and replace the range. This
> is not the correct behaviour. This patch ensures that if a range
> is specified, it is left untouched.
>
> CC: Samuel Ortiz <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
I don't see the advantage of the change. The warning already tells
us that the input to mfd_add_device was incorrect, so nothing the
function does can reliably fix it. Leaving the resource empty
is just as wrong as listing only the first interrupt.
Arnd
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