Re: [Patch v4 01/12] microblaze: irqchip: Move intc driver to irqchip

From: Michal Simek
Date: Fri Sep 02 2016 - 08:21:31 EST


On 2.9.2016 13:46, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the valuable feedback.
> Comments inline
>
>
> On 09/02/2016 11:27 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>> On 2.9.2016 12:06, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 09/02/2016 07:25 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>> On 1.9.2016 18:50, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel wrote:
>>>>> The Xilinx AXI Interrupt Controller IP block is used by the MIPS
>>>>> based xilfpga platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> Move the interrupt controller code out of arch/microblaze so that
>>>>> it can be used by everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> V3 -> V4
>>>>> No change
>>>>>
>>>>> V2 -> V3
>>>>> No change here. Cleanup patches follow after this patch.
>>>>> Its debatable to cleanup before/after move. Decided to place cleanup
>>>>> after move to put history in new place.
>>>>>
>>>>> V1 -> V2
>>>>>
>>>>> Renamed irq-xilinx to irq-axi-intc
>>>>> Renamed CONFIG_XILINX_INTC to CONFIG_XILINX_AXI_INTC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I see that this was suggested by Jason Cooper but using axi name
>>>> here is
>>>> not correct.
>>>> There is xps-intc name which is the name used on old OPB hardware
>>>> designs. It means this driver can be still used only on system which
>>>> uses it.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't axi-intc be more suitable moving forwards?
>>> The IP block is now known as axi intc for 5 years as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> Searching "axi intc" online results in the right docs for current and
>>> future platforms.
>>
>> yes but we still should support older platform and it is more then this.
>> This is soft-IP core and in future when there is new bus then IP will
>> just change bus interface, etc.
>
> That makes sense. I'll rename the driver to irq-xps-intc.c
> and CONFIG_XILINX_XPS_INTC
>
> Please shout now if anybody has issues with this.

XPS was shortcut for design tools. You had CONFIG_XILINX_INTC which is
IMHO the best name you can have.

Thanks,
Michal