Re: [PATCH] irq: remove obsolete definitions in interrupt.h

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 05 2012 - 04:43:17 EST


On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> interrupt.h contained a small fixlet for the days when
> m68k and sparc32 did not use genirq.
> As they have both entered the modern world this
> fixlet can be dropped.

You forgot that there is still an esoteric architecture which has
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n.

So at least the exit_irq_thread() needs to stay.

The request_threaded_irq() one should not be used by any S390
driver. If it's used, they have probably a special opcode for it. :)

Thanks,

tglx


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