Re: CVS Update@xxxxxxxxxxx: linux

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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:18:01PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > Log message:
> > 	i8259.c assumes that i8259 are interrupt 0 to 15.  Change DDB5476
> > 	code accordingly.
> 
>  Hmm, the assumption might be justifiable for the i386 only?  Shouldn't
> i8259.c be fixed instead? 

These are the ISA interrupts; many drivers make assumptions about the
interrupts numbers, so we can't really change the numbers anyway.  For
any non-ISA interrupt it's number can be choosen freely.

  Ralf


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