On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:49:01PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > No need to convert everything. > > > > First move is to make irq=0 meaning no IRQ. That means making things > > like: > > > > if (irq < 0) > > if (irq >= 0) > > > > into > > > > if (irq <= 0) > > if (irq > 0) > > > > And replace NO_IRQ with 0. > > > > That change shouldn't break anything, except those drivers which are 1) > > being passed an actual IRQ #0 and 2) testing for no IRQ. I suspect that > > those conditions aren't very common together. > > To clarify, you're suggesting that the meanings of all other IRQ values > would not change initially? Initially, or even ever. > (i.e., we remap HW irq 0, if there is one, > to some other random number but have a 1:1 mapping for everything else). Exact. > That could make sense as an approach. You might notice that a true IRQ #0 passed to generic drivers is not really frequent. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
