Re: [patch 1/2] genirq: allow usage of no_irq_chip

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:12:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:15:11 -0000
> Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Some dumb interrupt hardware has no way to ack/mask.... Instead of creating a
> > seperate chip structure we allow to reuse the already existing no_irq_chip
> 
> This is the patch which causes powerpc to crash.  In a quite ugly manner:
> early oops, falls into xmon, keeps oopsing from within xmon.  No serial
> port, too early for netconsole.
> 
> I'll drop it.

Note that dropping it makes the genirq stuff buggy on ARM, so this
needs to be resolved before it can go anywhere near Linus' tree.

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Russell King
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