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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Moving from old-irq.c
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:55:27PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> Ralf, I think we should have a common init_IRQ() in arch/mips/kernel, which
> will then call (*setup_irq)().  This way it is easier to build a kernel for
> multiple boards.  It is also more compatible with the current arrangment. 
> What do you think?

Well, do you actually build kernels for multiple boards that need this?  In
practice pretty much nobody seems to be interested; technical problems also
makes this much harder than on other architectures, for example of all my
MIPS systems none could actually share a kernel.

  Ralf