On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 05:31 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:17:00PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Some years ago, we had discussions about getting rid of IRQ numbers > > > altogether, or at least the requirement to have device drivers know > > > about them. Does anyone remember what happened to that idea? > > > > I think it's not totally dead. Last I heard, someone (jgarzik ?) was > > slowly, bit by bit, removing the dependencies on the irq argument on irq > > handlers which is one step in the direction. > > I think that project's dead, Jim. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/22/578 Ouch, missed that one... sad, would have been a good idea in the long run. irq_desc array is a big PITA. > You can't do that. /proc/interrupts is so terribly useful for a > sysadmin that you can't remove information from it. You can create a new one with informations about the new stuff.. Anyway, looks like it's not happening and we'll be stuck with the bloody array for the time being. Crap. Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
