diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-omap-intc.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-omap-intc.c
index 28718d3e8281032d422d2c9985d7ca450b7763a1..c03f140acbaebf9b29c55548833ffe60a7163907 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-omap-intc.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-omap-intc.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static int __init omap_init_irq_of(struct device_node *node)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int __init omap_init_irq_legacy(u32 base)
+static int __init omap_init_irq_legacy(u32 base, struct device_node *node)
 {
 	int j, irq_base;
 
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static int __init omap_init_irq_legacy(u32 base)
 		irq_base = 0;
 	}
 
-	domain = irq_domain_add_legacy(NULL, omap_nr_irqs, irq_base, 0,
+	domain = irq_domain_add_legacy(node, omap_nr_irqs, irq_base, 0,
 			&irq_domain_simple_ops, NULL);
 
 	omap_irq_soft_reset();
@@ -301,10 +301,26 @@ static int __init omap_init_irq(u32 base, struct device_node *node)
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	if (node)
+	/*
+	 * FIXME legacy OMAP DMA driver sitting under arch/arm/plat-omap/dma.c
+	 * depends is still not ready for linear IRQ domains; because of that
+	 * we need to temporarily "blacklist" OMAP2 and OMAP3 devices from using
+	 * linear IRQ Domain until that driver is finally fixed.
+	 */
+	if (of_device_is_compatible(node, "ti,omap2-intc") ||
+			of_device_is_compatible(node, "ti,omap3-intc")) {
+		struct resource res;
+
+		if (of_address_to_resource(node, 0, &res))
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		base = res.start;
+		ret = omap_init_irq_legacy(base, node);
+	} else if (node) {
 		ret = omap_init_irq_of(node);
-	else
-		ret = omap_init_irq_legacy(base);
+	} else {
+		ret = omap_init_irq_legacy(base, NULL);
+	}
 
 	if (ret == 0)
 		omap_irq_enable_protection();