Re: [GIT pull] irq updates for 4.13

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jul 10 2017 - 17:29:42 EST


On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Sebastian Reichel
<sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> So Sebastian, can you test if it's ok to revert just the __setup_irq()
>> part, but leave the smaller part in __free_irq() that just moves the
>> irq_release_resources() around at freeing time?
>
> Looking at my patch it implements what you describe (by coincidence,
> since git revert could not do a clean revert) as far as I can see.

Heh, yes, I didn't look at your patch as much as I looked at the
revert description.

And yes, going back to look at your patch it looks like it only
reverts the __setup_irq() parts.

Waiting for Thomas to comment on this whole thing..

Linus