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Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 17:30:51 +1000
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:02 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:49:04PM -0400, Nick wrote:
> > I am writing a driver to service an interrupt from our fpga.  I am call=
ing request_irq in the open
> > function of my driver.  The fpga is connected to external interrupt 1. =
 I am using interrupt
> > number 65 in the request_irq but the function is failing.
>=20
> request_irq takes a virtual IRQ number, not a hardware IRQ number.  You
> need to get the virtual IRQ number from irq_of_parse_and_map(), or from
> irq_create_mapping().
>=20
> This would probably confuse far fewer people if we used pointers in the
> API rather than virtual IRQ numbers...

I'll do the core changes if you fix all the drivers .. ;)

cheers

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