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Re: [RFC PATCH 13/16] powerpc/booke: Provide exception macros with interrupt name

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2012-02-17 08:50:31
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On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 19:34 -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
There is an existing set of arbitrary numbers that Linux passes,
but it's an undocumented mess that sort of corresponds to
server/classic
exception vectors but not really.

FIXME: Replace the existing trap numbering rather than add to it.
While this is a good idea, the problem is that we do have quite a few
things here or there that check regs->trap and act based on the trap
number, so we'd have to find them all and replace those comparison with
something symbolic.

Cheers,
Ben.
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