From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: Don't use NO_IRQ in pata_of_platform driver Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:40:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20111110162859.GA7088@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20111202192618.GC3037@localhost.localdomain> <1322867573.11728.22.camel@pasglop> <20111205161157.GA27550@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111205161157.GA27550@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Martin Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linus Torvalds , Anton Vorontsov , Alan Cox , Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, LKML , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , Pawel Moll , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 10:12:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Don't *change* NO_IRQ to zero (that whole #define is broken - leave it > > > around as a marker of brokenness), just start removing it from all the > > > ARM drivers that use the OF infrastructure. Which is presumably not > > > all that many yet. > > > > > > So whenever you find breakage, the fix now is to just remove NO_IRQ > > > tests, and replace them with "!irq". > > > > Russell, do you know whether it would make sense to set a timeline for > removing NO_IRQ from ARM platforms and migrating to 0 for the no-interrupt > case? I'm assuming that this mainly involves migrating existing hard-wired > code that deals with interrupt numbers to use irq domains. How many drivers do use IRQ #0 to start with? We might discover that in practice there is only a very few cases where this is an issue if 0 would mean no IRQ. Nicolas