Re: [PATCH 1/3] kvm: fix irq 0 assignment

Chris Wright
2009-03-04T19:41:50Z

* Marcelo Tosatti (mtosatti@redhat.com) wrote:
> Please do not special case irq 0. The fact that only x86/IA64 are
> supported at the moment does not mean other architectures can't
> use it.

Seems logical to use a flag instead of overloading the irq value.

> Also, the kernel code to handle dev/irq assignment is quite messy. It
> should be only a mechanism, with userspace controlling the policy.

I really agree here. I think some work to simplify/clarify would be
time well-spent!