Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] Driver core: platform: Add devm_platform_get_irqs_affinity()

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Dec 09 2020 - 13:32:23 EST


On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:36:56PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Drivers for multi-queue platform devices may also want managed interrupts
> for handling HW queue completion interrupts, so add support.

Why would a platform device want all of this? Shouldn't such a device
be on a "real" bus instead?

What in-kernel driver needs this complexity? I can't take new apis
without a real user in the tree, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h