On Friday, September 04, 2015 06:06:47 PM Marc Zyngier wrote: > IRQ controllers and timers are the two types of device the kernel > requires before being able to use the device driver model. > > ACPI so far lacks a proper probing infrastructure similar to the one > we have with DT, where we're able to declare IRQ chips and > clocksources inside the driver code, and let the core code pick it up > and call us back on a match. This leads to all kind of really ugly > hacks all over the arm64 code and even in the ACPI layer. > > It turns out that providing such a probing infrastructure is rather > easy, and provides a much deserved cleanup in both the arch code, the > GIC driver, and the architected timer driver.
Since I'm not familiar with the DT probing infrastructure mentioned above, can you please explain to me (possibly at a high level), how it is supposed to work in the ACPI case? Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
