Re: [PATCH 4/5] Centralise NO_IRQ definition

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:51 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > oh well [*]. Then it's gotta be the !dev->irq.valid thing i guess. 
> 
> No it's not.
> 
> The ppc PCI probing could trivilly just turn a 0 into 256 (or equivalent), 
> and mask off the low 7 bits when installing the handler.  They know the 
> interrupt is _really_ 0 from other sources (ie they have a different 
> firmware, with explicit callbacks, and/or hardcoded knowledge).

The ppc irq handling is more complex than that due to the wide range of
different hardware. We parse the irq tree from OF and assign them to
ranges of numbers allocated per controller. Adding some remapping of
some numbers would add complexity and possible bugs.

Ben.


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