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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2006-07-01 22:30:08 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2006-07-01 22:30:08 +0100
commitf8b5473fcbddbfde827ecf82aa0e81fa2a878220 (patch)
tree0d6d504f95830610cb2c2fb1e6e9e1ebf932762b /kernel/irq/chip.c
parenta2166abd06e7a9fd34eb18b7b27da18c6146e6ef (diff)
downloadlinux-f8b5473fcbddbfde827ecf82aa0e81fa2a878220.tar.gz
[ARM] 3690/1: genirq: Introduce and make use of dummy irq chip
Patch from Thomas Gleixner

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

ARM has a couple of really dumb interrupt controllers.
Implement a generic one and fixup the ARM migration. ARM reused
the no_irq_chip for this purpose, but this does not work out
for platforms which are not converted to the new interrupt
type handling model.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/irq/chip.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/chip.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/chip.c b/kernel/irq/chip.c
index 4a0952d9458b..54105bdfe20d 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/chip.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/chip.c
@@ -462,9 +462,18 @@ __set_irq_handler(unsigned int irq,
 	if (!handle)
 		handle = handle_bad_irq;
 
-	if (is_chained && desc->chip == &no_irq_chip)
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "Trying to install "
-		       "chained interrupt type for IRQ%d\n", irq);
+	if (desc->chip == &no_irq_chip) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "Trying to install %sinterrupt handler "
+		       "for IRQ%d\n", is_chained ? "chained " : " ", irq);
+		/*
+		 * Some ARM implementations install a handler for really dumb
+		 * interrupt hardware without setting an irq_chip. This worked
+		 * with the ARM no_irq_chip but the check in setup_irq would
+		 * prevent us to setup the interrupt at all. Switch it to
+		 * dummy_irq_chip for easy transition.
+		 */
+		desc->chip = &dummy_irq_chip;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);