Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip: uniphier-aidet: add UniPhier AIDET irqchip driver

[Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>]

On 21/08/17 11:54, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

>>> +     /* parent is GIC */
>>> +     parent_fwspec.fwnode = domain->parent->fwnode;
>>> +     parent_fwspec.param_count = 3;
>>> +     parent_fwspec.param[0] = 0;             /* SPI */
>>> +     parent_fwspec.param[1] = hwirq;
>>> +     parent_fwspec.param[2] = IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH;   /* properly set later */
>>
>> Why defer it to later? You already have the right information in "type",
>> so you might as well provide it immediately.
> 
> 
> Because .irq_set_type() will set it up
> before the IRQ is really in use.
> 
> 
> If we look gic_irq_domain_alloc() implementation,
> it does not care "type".
> 
> gic_set_type() will manipulate hardware registers.

But that's out of the scope of this driver. Whatever the GIC driver does
(or doesn't), you should pass it the right information.

> Having said that, it shouldn't hurt to set type here.
Exactly.

Thanks,

	M.
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