From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Centralise NO_IRQ definition
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:53:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132609994.26560.39.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511211336440.13959@g5.osdl.org>
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The point is, it's _not_ a valid irq for 99.9% of all machines and drivers
> that have ever been tested.
It is a valid irq for a wide range of embedded devices.
> Also, if you don't agree that 0 is special in the C language, then you're
> just strictly _wrong_. It's an undeniable fact that zero _is_ special.
And ? I really don't agree that just because 0 "looks kewl", we should
enforce that and add some dodgy remapping all over the place.
It's not like it was difficult to fix the few drivers that make bogus
assumptions and use NO_IRQ instead ...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 1:14 Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-21 11:12 ` David Howells
2005-11-21 12:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-21 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 19:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-21 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 19:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-21 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 21:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-21 21:25 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-21 21:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-21 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 22:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-21 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-21 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 22:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-21 22:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-21 23:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-22 1:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 2:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-21 21:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-21 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 11:13 ` David Woodhouse
2005-11-22 14:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-22 14:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-22 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 18:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-22 18:37 ` David Howells
2005-11-22 19:03 ` David Woodhouse
2005-11-22 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 23:58 ` David Woodhouse
2005-11-22 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 19:38 ` David Howells
2005-11-22 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 1:45 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-21 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-21 21:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-11-21 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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