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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 46/47] powerpc: Use new irq allocator
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:37:16 +1100
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On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 17:15 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> >  - Appart from the risk of breaking crap that
> parses /proc/interrupts,
> > adding the HW irq information there would be trivial and solve your
> > problem.
> 
> At this point in time getting things into sysfs seems the way to
> handle
> that. 

Right. For now, we have it in debugfs on powerpc, but I agree this
should probably move to sysfs.

Cheers,
Ben.