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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2007-06-04 23:00:00 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-06-25 17:02:07 +1000
commitee51de5645edee4124db6a479d2e135ebe436748 (patch)
treeac1ceab5d8051ca458b8a5f94377eec899dc97cc /include/asm-powerpc
parent6fde40f3f1a9641ea0a41471cea77f34c0cbb36f (diff)
[POWERPC] Add irq_create_direct_mapping()
This patch adds irq_create_direct_mapping(). This routine is an alternative to irq_create_mapping(), for irq controllers that can use linux virq numbers directly as hardware numbers. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-powerpc/irq.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/irq.h b/include/asm-powerpc/irq.h
index 05dd5a3eb3a..0485c53db2b 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/irq.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/irq.h
@@ -223,6 +223,15 @@ extern void irq_dispose_mapping(unsigned int virq);
extern unsigned int irq_find_mapping(struct irq_host *host,
irq_hw_number_t hwirq);
+/**
+ * irq_create_direct_mapping - Allocate a virq for direct mapping
+ * @host: host to allocate the virq for or NULL for default host
+ *
+ * This routine is used for irq controllers which can choose the hardware
+ * interrupt numbers they generate. In such a case it's simplest to use
+ * the linux virq as the hardware interrupt number.
+ */
+extern unsigned int irq_create_direct_mapping(struct irq_host *host);
/**
* irq_radix_revmap - Find a linux virq from a hw irq number.