Re: [RFC] killing linux/irq.h

Matthew Wilcox
2005-09-15T16:34:55Z

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>