Re: [patch 29/32] genirq: Remove irq_reserve_irq[s]

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 8 May 2014, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Wed, 07 May 2014 15:44:21 -0000, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No more users. And it's not going to come back. If you need
> > hotplugable irq chips, use irq domains.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The ironic thing is that irq_domain may end up bringing this function
> back in some form as an optimization for irq_domains that need a
> contiguous range, but don't want to allocate all the irq_descs
> immediately. But if that happens it will be a very private API and it
> doesn't nullify removing the function now.

Right. We can deal with it when the need arises, but that's a
completely core internal issue then which is not going to be usable
outside of kernel/irq.

Thanks,

	tglx
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