Hi Geert,

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Michael Schmitz <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> just as a heads-up, I've been working on getting this series ready for
>> submission to -net. The first six patches will need to be taken through
>> -net, the last two are m68k specific and might be equally well placed in
>> arch/m68k/amiga for preference.
>
> Please don't put drivers in arch/m68k/. drivers/net is fine for a pure-net
> driver.

OK, fine. arch/m68k/atai is where I had put the platform devices for
the Atari network and USB drivers, but these don't require much more
than a few register definitions.

>
>> Patch 6 and 8 are optional - the interrupts are handled just fine inside
>> ei_interrupt if generated by other users of IRQ_AMIGA_PORTS.
>>
>> If you know of some other hardware currently using IRQ_AMIGA_PORTS that
>> cannot handle shared interupts, give me a shout and I'll look into handling
>> this through a new interrupt controller for IRQ_AMIGA_PORTS.
>
> All Amiga devices should handle shared interrupts.

Good - do you see any merit in using a platform defined interrrupt
wrapper to 'protect' a driver interrupt from spurious calls?

> Thanks a lot for your work!

My pleasure, as always.

Cheers,

  Michael


>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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