Re: IDE Fixes for PCI, SMP

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:46:39 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> It is, change this back please..... On sparc_v9 the irq number sent
> to the interrupt handler is not the same thing as the 32-bit interrupt
> cookie you send off to request_irq().

That sounds broken. What's the point in giving the irq number at all,
then?

I agree that more people should use the "dev" argument, but it still
sounds like Linux/sparc is passing the interrupt handler a completely
bogus numebr that is not useful for anything at all?

Linus

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