Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 e100 enable_irq unbalanced from

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:13:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> We have a fundamental API design problem going back to
> day one. The API IMHO should really be
> 
> 	struct irq *irq;
> 	irq = allocate_irq(5, ...)
> 	enable_irq(irq);
> 
> That would fix
> - Drivers failing to load/init under freak low memory situations
> - How to cleanly report irqs (because each irq can now have ->name)
> - How to tell which shared irq users are disabled/enabled for the irq
>   poll/recovery code I posted (and is testing in -mm).
> 
> Unfortunately it would require changes to rather a lot of code.

I suggested something like this a while back on the linux-arch list
but it didn't particularly have a good reception from the other
arch maintainers.  If there's interest in it, I could dig it out.

-- 
Russell King
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