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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc: Add IO event interrupt support
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 15:40 -0600, Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin wrote:
> > We are -really- re-inventing interrupts and/or notifiers here, which
> > I find a tad annoying..
> 
> Agree. This is ugly. We could have just used the regular interrupt
> mechanism if the firmware didn't use shared rtas call and interrupt
> to report multiple types of events.

A notifier wouldn't have worked ?

Cheers,
Ben.