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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add NO_IRQ to all architectures
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:31:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098757882.17887.35.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410251926340.427@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:27 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Here'd a patch adding a definition of NO_IRQ to all archs include/asm-*/irq.h.
> 
> ..and is there any reason to make it arch-specific?
> 
> iow, I really can't imagine it not being ok to just have a global
> 
> 	#define NO_IRQ (-1)
> 
> in one place, rather than in every arch.

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 ?

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26  2:34 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 [this message]
2004-10-26  2:41     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-26  8:24     ` David Woodhouse

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