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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: ARM dyntick cleanup
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 08:57:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060703065735.GA19780@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151908178.24611.39.camel@localhost.localdomain>


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> > btw, is this, from include/linux/irq.h:
> > 
> > /*
> >  * Please do not include this file in generic code.  There is currently
> >  * no requirement for any architecture to implement anything held
> >  * within this file.
> >  *
> >  * Thanks. --rmk
> >  */
> > 
> > still true?
> 
> I think what it means is that linux/irq.h must not be included in 
> drivers. drivers should include linux/interrupt.h instead.

Christoph has had ideas for cleanups in the irq-header-files area for a 
long time. My rough battleplan would be this:

- linux/interrupt.h should remain the highlevel driver API [which can be
  used by both physical (genirq or non-genirq) or virtual platforms].
  Only this file should be included by drivers.

- rename linux/irq.h to linux/irqchips.h, to make it less likely for
  drivers to include it accidentally.

- rename asm/irq.h to asm/irqchips.h

- most of linux/hardirq.h should merge into interrupt.h [the rest into
  linux/irqchips.h] and hardirq.h should be eliminated.

- merge asm/hardirq.h and asm/hw_irq.h into asm/irqchips.h.

Christoph, agreed?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03  0:18 [PATCH] genirq: ARM dyntick cleanup Thomas Gleixner
2006-07-03  0:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03  6:29   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-07-03  6:57     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-07-04 11:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-04 12:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-05  8:35           ` Russell King
2006-07-08 18:53         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-03  7:41   ` Russell King
2006-07-03  7:55     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03  9:03       ` Russell King
2006-07-03  9:12         ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03 16:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-03 17:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-03 17:27     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05 23:24       ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-05 23:35         ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-05 23:50           ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-05 23:53         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-06  0:02           ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-06  6:47           ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi

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