Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Subject: Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention

Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 1:06 pm

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 04:28 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
quoted text> 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.


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[patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, David Brownell, (Sun Jun 22, 7:53 pm)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, Alan Cox, (Mon Jun 23, 2:08 am)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Jun 23, 3:42 am)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, David Brownell, (Mon Jun 23, 4:28 am)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, David Brownell, (Mon Jun 23, 4:29 am)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, Johannes Stezenbach, (Mon Jun 23, 4:34 am)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, Alan Cox, (Mon Jun 23, 7:20 am)

Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Jun 23, 1:06 pm)


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