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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:06:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214251591.8011.273.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806230428.20388.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 04:28 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > NO_IRQ on x86 is 0
> 
> There is no such #define for it.
> And since zero is used for timer IRQs, it's not invalid.

I'll refer you to past discussions with Linus here. 0 is invalid to
drivers for all intend and purposes.

Cheers,
Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-23 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23  2:53 [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention David Brownell
2008-06-23  9:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-23 11:29   ` David Brownell
2008-06-23 14:20     ` Alan Cox
2008-06-23 11:34   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2008-06-23 10:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-23 11:28   ` David Brownell
2008-06-23 20:06     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
     [not found] <fa.mcHAIQmpGZB1Vrm7ZD4/q9eo08Y@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.E+RvbN2EFmsI1cxQ84PIB8FbX50@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.EDfpY1oxab2UaliWrUY0jyr5T1k@ifi.uio.no>
2008-06-24  2:20     ` Robert Hancock
2008-06-24  6:39       ` David Brownell
2008-06-24  9:12         ` Alan Cox

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