Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] device property: Adding fwnode_irq_get_byname()

From: Saravana Kannan
Date: Tue Nov 09 2021 - 17:56:47 EST


On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 12:09 PM Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The first patch in this series adds the fwnode_irq_get_byname() which is
> the generic version of the of_irq_get_byname(). It is used to get the
> IRQ number from name of the interrupt.
>
> The second patch in this series uses the fwnode_irq_get_byname()
> function in the IIO driver of the ADXL355 accelerometer. The driver has
> been tested after applying this patch on a Raspberry PI. The ADXL355 was
> connected to the Raspberry Pi using I2C and fwnode_irq_get_byname() was
> used to get the IRQ number for the "DRDY" interrupt. Earlier this driver
> was using of_irq_get_byname() to get this IRQ number.

Why do we need these changes though? Is there a non-OF device this
driver would ever probe?

-Saravana