Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/25] irq_domain generalization and refinement

From: Tony Lindgren <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:38:53 -0800

* Russell King - ARM Linux <[email-masked]> [120204 14:00]:
> 
> Actually, it turns out to be not that hard, because twl doesn't actually
> make use of the IRQ domain stuff:
> 
> commit aeb5032b3f8b9ab69daa545777433fa94b3494c4
> Author:     Benoit Cousson <[email-masked]>
> AuthorDate: Mon Aug 29 16:20:23 2011 +0200
> Commit:     Samuel Ortiz <[email-masked]>
> CommitDate: Mon Jan 9 00:37:40 2012 +0100
> 
>     mfd: twl-core: Add initial DT support for twl4030/twl6030
> 
>     [[email-masked]: Fix IRQ_DOMAIN dependency in kconfig]
> 
> Adding any dependency - especially one which wouldn't be enabled - for
> a new feature which wasn't required before is going to break existing
> users, so this shouldn't have been done in the first place.
> 
> A better fix to preserve existing users would've been as below - yes
> it means more ifdefs, but if irq domain is to remain a DT only thing
> then we're going to end up with _lots_ of this stuff.
> 
> I'd much prefer to see irq domain become more widely available so it
> doesn't require these ifdefs everywhere.

Your patch below looks like a correct fix to me to the problem
you and Grazvydas are seeing:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <[email-masked]>
 
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig    |    2 +-
>  drivers/mfd/twl-core.c |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> index 28a301b..bd60ce0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ config MENELAUS
>  
>  config TWL4030_CORE
>  	bool "Texas Instruments TWL4030/TWL5030/TWL6030/TPS659x0 Support"
> -	depends on I2C=y && GENERIC_HARDIRQS && IRQ_DOMAIN
> +	depends on I2C=y && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
>  	help
>  	  Say yes here if you have TWL4030 / TWL6030 family chip on your board.
>  	  This core driver provides register access and IRQ handling
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/twl-core.c b/drivers/mfd/twl-core.c
> index e04e04d..5913aaa 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/twl-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/twl-core.c
> @@ -263,7 +263,9 @@ struct twl_client {
>  
>  static struct twl_client twl_modules[TWL_NUM_SLAVES];
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN
>  static struct irq_domain domain;
> +#endif
>  
>  /* mapping the module id to slave id and base address */
>  struct twl_mapping {
> @@ -1226,6 +1228,7 @@ twl_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>  	pdata->irq_base = status;
>  	pdata->irq_end = pdata->irq_base + nr_irqs;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN
>  	domain.irq_base = pdata->irq_base;
>  	domain.nr_irq = nr_irqs;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_OF_IRQ
> @@ -1233,6 +1236,7 @@ twl_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>  	domain.ops = &irq_domain_simple_ops;
>  #endif
>  	irq_domain_add(&domain);
> +#endif
>  
>  	if (i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter, I2C_FUNC_I2C) == 0) {
>  		dev_dbg(&client->dev, "can't talk I2C?\n");
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