[PATCH 15/16] ARM: fiq: save FIQ_START by passing absolute fiq number
From: Shawn Guo <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-21 08:50:19
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:55:20PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 01:26:56PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:quoted
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:44:02PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:quoted
FIQs should be an entirely separate number space from IRQs, as we may want to totally decouple them from the IRQ stuff (we probably should have already done this when genirq came along.) About the only stuff FIQs use is the enable/disable_irq as a short cut to dealing with the mask registers.I do not quite understand what you are asking for, but I'm guessing it with the patch below. Please elaborate it a little bit more if that's not what you are asking for.I was thinking about moving entirely away from any bits of genirq for this. We shouldn't really be mixing these two things together by nabbing some of the IRQ numberspace for this. Looking at this code, I'm thinking about taking this further, and santising the whole thing... though that's not going to be a quick change.
Reading the comment, I still do not have any picture about how to decouple the FIQ from IRQ numberspace. Could you take a few minutes to educate specifically, so that I do not have to guess what's the best way to do that? -- Regards, Shawn