linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irq: handle irq0 special only on x86

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:11 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: handle irq0 special only on x86

On 12/10/2009 12:24 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> Note, I fully agree to use 0 for NO_IRQ if you have an int-sized value
> that holds either NO_IRQ or a valid irq number.  But in practise I'd not
> recommend to use this idiom.
> 

You're tilting at windmills about something that was settled long ago,
like it or not.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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