[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 112/121] of/irq: Drop obsolete 'interrupts' vs 'interrupts-extended' text

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Dec 2 19:19:51 UTC 2014


3.13.11-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>

commit 66865de4314caca30598244b86817e774c188afa upstream.

a9ecdc0fdc54 ("of/irq: Fix lookup to use 'interrupts-extended' property
first") updated the description to say that:

  - Both 'interrupts' and 'interrupts-extended' may be present
  - Software should prefer 'interrupts-extended'
  - Software that doesn't comprehend 'interrupts-extended' may use
    'interrupts'

But there is still a paragraph at the end that prohibits having both and
says 'interrupts' should be preferred.

Remove the contradictory text.

Fixes: a9ecdc0fdc54 ("of/irq: Fix lookup to use 'interrupts-extended' property first")
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt
index ce6a1a0..8a3c408 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/interrupts.txt
@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@ should only be used when a device has multiple interrupt parents.
   Example:
 	interrupts-extended = <&intc1 5 1>, <&intc2 1 0>;
 
-A device node may contain either "interrupts" or "interrupts-extended", but not
-both. If both properties are present, then the operating system should log an
-error and use only the data in "interrupts".
-
 2) Interrupt controller nodes
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-- 
1.9.1





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