[PATCH 7/8] powerpc/5200: Refactor mpc5200 interrupt controller driver

Matt Sealey matt at genesi-usa.com
Wed Jan 28 04:52:40 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
>
> Rework the mpc5200-pic driver to simplify it and fix up the setting
> of desc->status when set_type is called for internal IRQs (so they
> are reported as level, not edge).  The simplification is due to
> splitting off the handling of external IRQs into a separate block
> so they don't need to be handled as exceptions in the normal
> CRIT, MAIN and PERP paths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> CC: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>

Can I assume this has absolutely no functional impact compared to the
old one? It doesn't change any behaviour, just implements exactly the
same in a much nicer way?

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations



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