Re: [RFC PATCH v3] irqchip: Add support for Tango interrupt controller

From: Marc Gonzalez
Date: Fri Jan 22 2016 - 11:45:32 EST


On 22/01/2016 17:39, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 22/01/2016 17:35, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>
>>> Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> With your latest patch, can I drop the ranges property?
>>>
>>> Why would you want to do that?
>>
>> <confused> I thought that was the whole point of the v4 improvement?
>
> The point was to make it work right *if* someone were to do that even
> though having it there better reflects what the hardware actually looks
> like.

That's the part I'm struggling to understand. Who other than you or me
would write a device tree from scratch for this interrupt controller?