Re: [PATCH] IRQ and resource for platform_device

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 15 May 2003 17:30:52 +0100


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:03:50AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:59:20PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > The location and interrupt of some platform devices are only known by
> > platform specific code. In order to avoid putting platform specific
> > parameters into drivers, place resource and irq members into struct
> > platform_device.
> >
> > Discussion point: is one resource and one irq enough?
>
> No.
>
> We have the same need for PPC SoC and system controller on-chip
> devices. Some devices have multiple interrupts and/or resources.

Is there a sane limit on the number of interrupts and resources for one
device?

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