Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/9] s390 virtual console for guests

Carsten Otte
2007-05-15T07:54:45Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> It seems like request_irq is roughly the same as
> register_external_interrupt. I suspect that you could get away with
> either patching hvc_console to use register_external_interrupt if
> CONFIG_S390 or perhaps providing a common interface.
>
> I suspect that this is going to come up again for sharing other paravirt
> drivers.
Maybe we should have a wrappers for request_irq/free_irq in arch/
rather then #ifdefs in each paravirtual driver. We need to talk this
over with Martin (our arch maintainer).

so long,
Carsten