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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de•ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org,
	"cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org" <cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Support for MPIC on native cell
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:40:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161301244.10524.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610191638.50652.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 16:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 09:45, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > +               /* The MPIC driver will get everything it needs from the
> > +                * device-tree, just pass 0 to all arguments
> > +                */
> > +               mpic = mpic_alloc(dn, 0, 0, 0, 0, " MPIC     ");
> 
> Do you expect future users to do the same and just pass zeroes?
> If so, maybe we should add a small wrapper like
> 
> static inline struct mpic *mpic_probe(struct device_node *dn)
> {
> 	return mpic_alloc(dn, 0, 0, 0, 0, " MPIC     ");
> }

Possibly... there are still flags that it can't figure out by itself,
like segher never put "big-endian" in the SLOF DT of the blades etc...

But yes, I might move in that direction.

Ben.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-19 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16  7:45 [PATCH] powerpc: Support for MPIC on native cell Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-19 14:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-19 23:40   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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