# Re: \[PATCH\] \[POWERPC\] mpic: deal with bogus NIRQ in Feature Reporting Register

- From: Scott Wood \<hidden\>
- Date: 2008-05-21 22:11:22 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/05/9440398
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/05/9440395/t.md

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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:57:55PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Some chips (like the SoCs from Freescale) report the wrong value in NIRQ
> and this causes issues if its doesn't match or exceed the value of
> irq_count.

Is it really wrong, or just not accounting for the gap between external
and internal interrupts?

-Scott
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