Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a new member name to structure irq_host

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:44:27 +1000

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:42 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Which makes me think (again) that we should have an optional 
> > device_node
> > pointer in irq_host. I know you said you wanted the irq stuff to be OF
> > agnostic, but the reality is most of the implementations do have an OF
> > node. And all of the newer irq_host implementations do, with the
> > exception of PS3 and celleb - which are special.
> 
> How do you suggest to get a reasonable display name out of
> the device tree?  The recommended human-readable name for
> interrupt controller nodes is "interrupt-controller"...
> You cannot use "device_type" either, and using "compatible"
> requires selecting one of its string entries, and likely
> using a lookup table after that, too.

In that case, I would display the node full path.

Ben.