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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:34:55 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing linux/irq.h
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To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:50:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk wrote:
> > 	We get regular portability bugs when somebody decides to include
> > linux/irq.h into a driver instead of asm/irq.h.  It's almost always a
> > wrong thing to do and, in fact, causes immediate breakage on e.g. arm.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more logical to make linux/irq.h the preferred include?
> Usually the linux/* versions are preferred over the asm/* versions.

There's almost no reason to want <*/irq.h> in the first place.  Almost
all drivers really want <linux/interrupt.h>