From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266592AbUGKNs5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:48:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266596AbUGKNs5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:48:57 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:5030 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266592AbUGKNs4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:48:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:09:20 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard To: Peter Chubb Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Panin Subject: Re: Moving per-arch IRQ handling code into common directories Message-ID: <20040711110919.GI5232@krispykreme> References: <16602.9814.700745.300562@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16602.9814.700745.300562@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, > Inside each arch-specific kernel/irq.c, there's a comment something like, > /* (mostly architecture independent, will move to kernel/irq.c in 2.5.) */ > > This obviously hasn't happened, even though there was a patch by > Andrey Panin floating about around a year ago. Is there some > fundamental objection to consolidating the IRQ handling as far as > possible, or was it just that the patch didn't get high enough profile? I think it died because we were in a freeze at the time. Id like to see it happen again, perhaps we can get something together to go into -mm. Anton