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

Paul Walmsley
2010-02-17T07:32:48Z

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.

- Paul