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On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 22:57 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It should be possible to make it a loadable module, with deferred
> probing etc. You wouldn't use IRQCHIP_DECLARE() for this though,
> but instead have a platform driver that sets up the irq domain.

Thanks for explaning.

> It probably makes sense to have a single driver file for the
> FPGA device that does this, and only split out the other devices
> from it that consume the irqs.

Is drivers/irqchip/ the right place this driver?

I am asking because there is no tristate config options in
drivers/irqchip/Kconfig at the moment.