Re: [PATCH 01/15] ARM minor irq handler cleanups

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 18:49:47 EST


Russell King wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 06:17:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
If we had a migration plan (ie: request_irq_new(), above) then this of
course wouldn't be a problem.
A fair comment...

Then we'll be stuck with request_irq_new() for the next 10 years or so.

(un-hijacking topic <grin>)

Another fair comment. I am secretly hoping for the ease of a flag day (a la pt_regs) rather than a decade-long transition, but I readily to confess to dodging the entire issue by doing all these cleanups first :)

Jeff




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