Re: [PATCH] [staging] lirc_serial: allocate irq at init time

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:31:46PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> There's really no good reason not to just grab the desired IRQ at driver
> init time, instead of every time the lirc device node is accessed. This
> also improves the speed and reliability with which a serial transmitter
> can operate, as back-to-back transmission attempts (i.e., channel change
> to a multi-digit channel) don't have to spend time acquiring and then
> releasing the IRQ for every digit, sometimes multiple times, if lircd
> has been told to use the min_repeat parameter.
> 
> CC: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_serial.c |   44 +++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

This patch doesn't apply to the staging-next branch, care to respin it
and resend it so I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h