Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/dts: remove msi-available-ranges property

From: Lian Minghuan-b31939 <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:15:36 +0800

On 06/15/2013 06:10 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 06/14/2013 02:15:58 AM, Minghuan Lian wrote:
>> For MPIC v4.3 MSIIR supports 8 MSI registers and MSIIR1 supports
>> 16 MSI registers, but uses different IBS and SRS shift. For the
>> first register, when using MSIIR we will get the irqs 0x0 0x1 0x2
>> ...0x1f, but when using MSIIR1, the irqs are 0x0 0x10 0x20 ... 0x1f0
>> It is hard to describe the available irqs using property
>> 'msi-available-ranges'. The patch removes this property.
>
> Only remove it from mpic 4.3.  And since you introduced 
> qoriq-mpic4.3.dtsi earlier in the patchset, why didn't you just avoid 
> adding it then?
>
[Minghuan] If adding it in qoriq-mpic4.3, and the 3-5 patches are not 
accepted, mpic4.3 can also work.
> -Scott