[PATCH resend] cs5535-clockevt: allow the MFGPT IRQ to be shared

[Jens Rottmann]

cs5535-clockevt: allow the MFGPT IRQ to be shared

Shared timer IRQs are not a good solution, however the Geode platform has no
APIC, IRQs are a scarce resource and there is no technical reason to forbid it
rightaway.  Increased latencies and overhead due to sharing are still better
than a driver refusing to load.

Signed-off-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Hi again,

could you please take this, for linux-next?

Thanks,
Jens

--- linux-3.2-rc6/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c
+++ allow_shared_mfgpt_irq/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static irqreturn_t mfgpt_tick(int irq, v
 
 static struct irqaction mfgptirq  = {
 	.handler = mfgpt_tick,
-	.flags = IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_TIMER,
+	.flags = IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_SHARED,
 	.name = DRV_NAME,
 };
 
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