Re: [PATCH] pata_of_platform: fix no irq handling

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:40:54 +0100
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

`git grep NO_IRQ include arch/*/include' is still quite enlightening...

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