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SubjectRe: [PATCH] irq: handle irq0 special only on x86
On 01/12/2010 07:59 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> the feed-back I have got up to now wasn't helpfull. (Only some "irq0 is
> evil---no it's not" discussion.) So what do you think? I admit the
> #ifdef isn't nice, but if the semantic is OK I'm willing to rework it
> into something more pretty.

There was a debate on this a long time ago, and the outcome was that IRQ
0 is invalid, across the kernel, and that it is up to each architecture
to carry exceptions (like IRQ 0 for the timer interrupt in x86.) Hinc
dictat Linus, so you would have to convince him before any of the arch
maintainer could realistically even consider this change.

-hpa

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