RE: [PATCH 05/24] omap4: Add needed IRQ line into irqs.h

Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-02-17T07:25:24Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Walmsley [mailto:paul@pwsan.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:15 PM
> To: Shilimkar, Santosh
> Cc: tony@atomide.com; linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; ben@fluff.org.uk; sameo@linux.intel.com;
> lrg@slimlogic.co.uk; Cousson, Benoit
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 05/24] omap4: Add needed IRQ line into irqs.h
>
> Hello Santosh,
>
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>
> > Having said that, I think it's best time to changes this so that
> > the drivers getting up streamed can use correct names directly.
> >
> > Also irqs-44xx.h header inclusion can be avoided in each driver if plat/irqs.h
> > include it.
> >
> > I can check this if this can go in the currunt series itself. At least USB
> > and MCPDM are the two drivers I know of, planned to be lined up which will
> > get affected.
> >
> > How about doing this in the .34-rc1 so that we don't break anybody ?
>
> How about just submitting the auto-generated IRQ file, convert the
> existing in-tree users, and leave the old macros there and mark them
> deprecated with a comment? Then for the next release, submit a patch to
> change the newly-merged users and remove the deprecated macros?
Sounds ok if we can keep both exist for some time. Will do this.