From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add NO_IRQ to all architectures
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:41:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026024137.GE17038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098757882.17887.35.camel@gaston>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:31:22PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hehe... just after I went through all include/asm-*/... :)
> Well, the reason I did it that way is that I wasn't sure an arch
> wouldn't want to revert to 0 ... like x86 to be more "backward
> compatible" or to better match what probe_irq_* does ...
> Note to Willy: In the long run, the irq number should indeed be a
> typedef, it would be nice indeed to hide it in a structure, with some
> ISA_TO_IRQ and IRQ_TO_ISA for drivers who care about legacy numbers
> maybe ?
Justin case there was any confusion, this was William Irwin, not
Matthew Wilcox.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 2:08 [RFC] Add NO_IRQ to all architectures Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-26 2:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-26 2:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-26 2:41 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-26 8:24 ` David Woodhouse
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