[PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc: Add IO event interrupt support
Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin
thlin at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 9 01:29:26 EST 2011
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 15:40 -0600, Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin wrote:
> > > We are -really- re-inventing interrupts and/or notifiers here, which
> > > I find a tad annoying..
> >
> > Agree. This is ugly. We could have just used the regular interrupt
> > mechanism if the firmware didn't use shared rtas call and interrupt
> > to report multiple types of events.
>
> A notifier wouldn't have worked ?
Yes. A notifier should have worked. Will change to use a notifier for
the chain.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
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