Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Laughter was not wholly unexpected, though I wasn't joking.  I'm trying
> > to be realistic about the lifetime of any given hardware, and IOC4 is
> > several years old at this point.  Couple that with a sincere desire to
> > preserve application source compatability when (not if) new hardware
> > appears, and an abstraction layer seemed to be a logical choice.  I'm
> > more than happy to discuss problems in the abstraction layer's interface
> > and make appropriate changes -- I'm nothing if not obliging.
> 
> Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit
> pointless.  It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to
> pop up.

The Octane port will hopefully soon support external inteerupts on the
ioc3, so this does make sense.

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