From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH and RFC] Remove request_8xxirq
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:58:49 +0200
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>The other problem is the "namespace" of request_irq() usually assumes
>numbers 0 to 15 are an 8259, and many legacy devices are hardcoded to
>use these numbers.

Not that much actually. Look at pmac, I have nothing even close to
the 0..15 ISA namespace. Of course, a few crappy legacy ISA drivers
are broken, but we don't use them on PMAC, and you can eventually
hack them if you need them on embedded until a proper fix gets done.

BTW. At least serial.c is beeing redesigned by Russel King (ARM) ;)

Ben.


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