Re: [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi driver trivial

[Jeff Garzik]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:47:58 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > That was a goofup.  I proposed that we should add a #define
> > > TWO_ARG_IRQ_HANDLERS (or whatever) and I think I actually wrote the
> > > patch, but it got lost.
> > >
> > > I agree it would be a kind thing to do in this case.
>
> > Yep, I was thinking that including
> >
> > 	#define IRQ_HANDLER_V3
> >
> > would be a good idea.
>
> it sets a certain precedent though.... we don't do this for the 500
> other API changes we do each release (see stable-api-nonsense)... so
> this one is mostly arbitrary picked out

We do for include/linux/netdevice.h, see HAVE_xxx -- and we should do it 
because the last irq handler change was a pain for backports, and this 
makes life easier for the backporters.  irq handling is probably far 
more global than any other kernel API except kmalloc()

	Jeff



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