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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/11] ARM: dts: mvebu: Add definitions for PCIe legacy INTx interrupts
On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 04:38:18PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 22:53:46 +0200
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 08:31:03PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > This patch series add definitions for PCIe legacy INTx interrupts into
> > > every DTS file used by the pci-mvebu.c controller driver.
> >
> > What you fail to explain in the commit message is Why?
> >
> > Andrew
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> this is required for example in a scenario where a driver requests only
> one of the legacy interrupts (INTA). Without this change, the driver
> would be notified on events on all 4 (INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD), even if
> it requested only one of them.

O.K, so please add that to the commit message.

Is this purely theoretical, or are there known broken platforms out
there? Should a subset of these patches be added to stable?

Andrew

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