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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] uio: add an of_genirq driver
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:36:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A355155.4020500@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090614192359.GG3639@local>

Hans J. Koch wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:05:33PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> Anyway, 0 is a valid IRQ number, so it cannot be used as "no irq".
>> May I point you to this thread?
>>
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/21/221
> 
> Linus is just plain wrong in this 4 year old mail.

See also this related thread.

http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/browse_thread/thread/9816648d5a8a1c9e/9968968188b5ab5a?lnk=gst&q=rx8025#9968968188b5ab5a

> 
>> (The issue comes up once in a while as some archs still use NO_IRQ, some with
>> 0 some with -1)
>>
>>>> 	if (uioinfo->irq == NO_IRQ)
>>>> 		uioinfo->irq = UIO_IRQ_NONE;
>>> Sorry for my ignorance, but what is NO_IRQ? If I do

It's 0 on PowerPC but ARM seems still to use -1.

http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.30/arch/powerpc/include/asm/irq.h#L29

For x86 it's not defined at all. But as this code is for the PowerPC,
where using NO_IRQ seems still to be OK.

Wolfgang.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-14 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12  0:04 [PATCH 0/2] add OF wrapper for uio-pdrv-genirq Wolfram Sang
2009-06-12  0:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] uio/pdrv_genirq: Refactor probe routine to expose a generic part Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 12:15   ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-12  0:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] uio: add an of_genirq driver Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 12:21   ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-14 17:14     ` Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 18:33       ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-14 19:05         ` Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 19:23           ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-14 19:36             ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2009-06-14 20:34               ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-14 22:00                 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 23:01                   ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-14 23:46                     ` Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 23:50                       ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-14 19:27           ` Greg KH
2009-06-14 21:46             ` Wolfram Sang
2009-06-14 23:12     ` Alan Cox
2009-06-14 23:45       ` Hans J. Koch
2009-06-15  8:44         ` Alan Cox
2009-06-15  9:45       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-14 14:40   ` Grant Likely
2009-06-16  9:04     ` Wolfram Sang
2009-06-16 12:46       ` Grant Likely

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