demuxing irqs

Stephen Neuendorffer stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com
Thu Sep 18 03:54:48 EST 2008


It doesn't seem to me that the problem (hierarchical interrupts) is one
that only happens with GPIOs, so why treat them specially?  Since there
seems to be a reasonable solution that keeps them in a
separate namespace, that seems like the better way to go...

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=xilinx.com at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Jon
Smirl
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:09 AM
> To: avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
> Cc: Scott Wood; linuxppc-dev; Roland Dreier
> Subject: Re: demuxing irqs
> 
> Both solutions can be implemented. This is really a question of style.
> Since this impacts all of the PowerPC implementations we should get
> feedback from more people  I'll go along with whatever the group
> wants.
> 
> The basic question is: Should GPIOs and VIRQs each have their own
> namespace, or should there be a single unified namespace?
> 
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