From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758067AbYFDAOD (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:14:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754212AbYFDANy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:13:54 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:55404 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754096AbYFDANy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:13:54 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:13:40 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Linux PPC devel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , LKML , Virtualization Mailing List References: <200806031444.21945.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200806031445.22561.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200806031445.22561.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806041013.40692.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 03 June 2008 22:45:22 Christian Borntraeger wrote: > This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if > the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use > hvc_console without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq. Two questions. Is it possible to make the timer backoff a third kind of notifier? And is it possible to make the dependency static, rather than dynamic, or does someone need two options at runtime? Thanks, Rusty.