Re: [PATCH] Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 12:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yeah.  I tried something like this and code broke.  For example,
> arch/mips/sni/irq.c has
> 
> struct irqaction sni_isa_irq = {
> 	.handler = sni_isa_irq_handler,
> 	.name = "ISA",
> 	.flags = SA_SHIRQ
> };

Grr. I fixed that one at least once.

> there are presumably only a few such stragglers left in the tree but there
> are probably more instances out-of-tree.
>
> But I think we should just apply your patch anyway.  Only a small
> proportion of things will break and we do need to be rid of the old
> definitions one day.

For above use cases there is no way of emiting a deprecation warning.
OTOH it leads the user directly to the place, where he can find the fix.
Removing them completely might leave folks clueless.

> It would be great if someone could do another pass across the tree,
> clean up the remaining SA_* usages.

The above seems the only one in Linus tree. I check -mm as well.

	tglx