> The fact is, 0 _is_ special. Not just for hardware, but because 0 has a
> magical meaning as "false" in the C language.
I don't agree, irq 0 has been a valid irq on a number of platforms for
ages (including your own G5, at least some of them have the SATA irq at
0 :) and this didn't cause any problem for most drivers. The few ones
that have done broken assumption have been easily fixed using NO_IRQ.
"Translating" it means some ugly translation work all over the place,
which means overhead in the interrupt path (ok, not that much but
still), plus finding some magic number to put 0 on, which makes things
much more complicated for archs that have interrupts sorted in nice
blocks of power of two, etc... a significant burden on arch/PIC code for
no good reason imho.
I hate arbitrary "translations" when they aren't strictly necessary.
It's common to have a constant for a "not valid" number in spaces where
"0" is a valid value, I don't think that "looking simpler" to dump
driver writers is worth it in this case.
Ben.
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