* Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> > is there any architecture where irq 0 is a legitimate setting that could
> > occur in drivers, and which would make NO_IRQ define of 0 non-practical?
>
> Yes, G5 powermacs have the SATA controller on irq 0. So if we can't
> use irq 0, I can't get to my hard disk. :) Other powermacs also use
> irq 0 for various things, as do embedded PPC machines.
oh well [*]. Then it's gotta be the !dev->irq.valid thing i guess. OTOH
that has some disadvantages too: any normal access to dev->irq.nr will
mean implicit 0xffffffff (or 0xffffffffffffffff) masking generated by
the compiler. Also, unless there's some compiler trick, tons of drivers
will be affected - because dev->irq isnt valid anymore. A quick grep
suggests 5381 lines of code affected, spread out in 917 files. Quite
impractical. So we are back to square one and Matthew's patch(es).
Ingo
[*] is there any weird architecture that hardcodes IRQ -1 to some
device? ;-)
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