Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:00:25 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pata_of_platform: fix no irq handling |
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:40:54 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Zero means no IRQ. Any platform with bits of code left over exposing IRQ > > 0 is already not supported by lots of driver code including libata. > > ...and must implement some kind of interrupt remapping crap just to work > around this bogus design decision.
I'll leave you to argue with Linus about that, but since that was the decision back in 2005 (for good C reasons) we can safely rely on it.
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