On Thursday 30 May 2013, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 May 2013, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Right, so we clearly need it. I also though of a second case, which
> > is that the xlate() function might itself return -EPROBE_DEFER in
> > the case that the irqchip driver is registered but e.g. not the
> > parent of a cascaded irqchip.
>
> That shouldn't happen. If the parent isn't registered, then how can
> the child set itself up?
I guess it can just register the domain, but as long as no irqs
are needed, it doesn't have to set up a chained handler. I don't
think any irqchip driver today does it that way, but I think there
is nothing stopping us from doing a driver that does.
Arnd
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