Re: [PATCH] IRQ and resource for platform_device

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 15 May 2003 19:13:36 +0100


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:35:13AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:30:52PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > Is there a sane limit on the number of interrupts and resources for one
> > device?
>
> As of today, I know of a device that has 5 interrupts and another
> with 2 interrupts. I believe two resources is the most I've seen
> so far on a "dumb" on-chip device.
>
> I think having an array of irqs and resources of max count 8 should
> do it for now.
>
> No matter what we choose, the hardware designers will screw it up
> eventually.

Hmm, how would people feel if I suggested just:

int num_resources;
struct resource *resources;

We have an IORESOURCE_IRQ, which can be used to indicate IRQ
resources.

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