Re: [patch] x86 supports NO_IRQ convention

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 16:07:41 EST


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 04:28 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > NO_IRQ on x86 is 0
>
> There is no such #define for it.
> And since zero is used for timer IRQs, it's not invalid.

I'll refer you to past discussions with Linus here. 0 is invalid to
drivers for all intend and purposes.

Cheers,
Ben.


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