From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: handle irq0 special only on x86
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:59:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4D5329.7050107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100112155929.GA5615@pengutronix.de>
On 01/12/2010 07:59 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> the feed-back I have got up to now wasn't helpfull. (Only some "irq0 is
> evil---no it's not" discussion.) So what do you think? I admit the
> #ifdef isn't nice, but if the semantic is OK I'm willing to rework it
> into something more pretty.
There was a debate on this a long time ago, and the outcome was that IRQ
0 is invalid, across the kernel, and that it is up to each architecture
to carry exceptions (like IRQ 0 for the timer interrupt in x86.) Hinc
dictat Linus, so you would have to convince him before any of the arch
maintainer could realistically even consider this change.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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2010-01-12 15:59 ` [PATCH] irq: handle irq0 special only on x86 Uwe Kleine-König
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