On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:45:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2007 13:10, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > To do this I believe will require a s/unsigned int irq/struct irq_desc *irq/
> > throughout the entire kernel.  Getting the arch specific code and the
> > generic kernel infrastructure fixed and ready for that change looks
> > like a pain but pretty doable.
> 
> We did something like this a few years back on the s390 architecture, which
> happens to be lucky enough not to share any interrupt based drivers with
> any of the other architectures.

What you're proposing is looking similar to a proposal I put forward some
4 years ago, but was rejected.  Maybe times have changed and there's a
need for it now.

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Russell King
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