linux-kernel - Re: [patch 46/47] powerpc: Use new irq allocator

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Date:	Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:37:16 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [patch 46/47] powerpc: Use new irq allocator

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 17:15 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> >  - Appart from the risk of breaking crap that
> parses /proc/interrupts,
> > adding the HW irq information there would be trivial and solve your
> > problem.
> 
> At this point in time getting things into sysfs seems the way to
> handle
> that. 

Right. For now, we have it in debugfs on powerpc, but I agree this
should probably move to sysfs.

Cheers,
Ben.

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