[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>

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);