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

Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-02-17T07:37:06Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Walmsley [mailto:paul@pwsan.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:03 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
>
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>
> > > -----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
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> There shouldn't be any need to keep the old macros after the 2.6.34 merge
> window. Probably the best time to remove them would be in a patch queued
> for the 2.6.35 merge window.
>
> Any new patches that use 44xx IRQs would be required to use the
> autogenerated IRQ macros after the 2.6.34 merge.
>
> Now would also be a good time to get the autogenerated DMA data in, for
> similar reasons.
Both DMA files can't co-exist since the names are aligned. I shall try DMA
changes as well.

Regards,
Santosh