Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

[Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit
> pointless.  It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to
> pop up.
>
> Hence an option would be to merge an IOC4-specific driver which just does
> what you need, no abstraction layer.  If someone later comes up with a
> requirement for a driver for similar-looking hardware then we can resurrect
> the abstraction layer at that stage.

Agreed.  I'll look into what our plans are for additional or follow-on
devices.  Right now I see a need for this on the horizon, but it's not
much more than a tiny indistiguishable dot.  I'll have more info in a
day or two.  I'll also use that time to fix up the things that
Christoph Hellwig noticed.

Brent

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