Re: [PATCH] ARM: mmp: replace NO_IRQ

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 04:07:56PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The mmp platform has its own definitions with the old NO_IRQ meaning,
> but compares against the global NO_IRQ macro that we should have
> removed long ago.
> 
> The specific usage in arch/arm/mach-mmp/devices.c is awkward, but
> fixing it properly would require a larger scale rewrite of the entire
> file, or even using devicetree for all machines. As I'm not able to
> do that any time soon, let's make the current behavior more explit
> instead and avoid the literal use of NO_IRQ.

So this probably continues to be a problem, but we hide it from the
NO_IRQ brigade.  I think it would be better to leave it as-is until
it can be fixed up correctly, rather than trying to hide it.

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