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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add NO_IRQ to all architectures
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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