From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933693AbbCDRqt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:46:49 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56753 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932893AbbCDRqo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:46:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:45:55 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Valentin Rothberg Cc: tony@atomide.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Removal of IRQF_DISABLED Message-Id: <20150304094555.f621ca1a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:53:07 +0100 Valentin Rothberg wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew asked me to prepare one big patch that removes the > IRQF_DISABLED flag entirely. I already sent a few small patches that > remove the usage of this flag, two of them [1, 2] have been applied > by Tony to omap-for-v4.1/l3. Hence, I cannot remove the definition > now and leave the files of [1, 2] untouched. > > I don't want to break anything or cause troubles while merging. So > shall I wait until v4.1 to send the big patch or is there are nice way > to get it merged now (e.g., getting [1, 2] into omap-for-v4.0)? > You're over-sweating this - merging patches is what we do ;) Just send the patch, against current Linus mainline and I'll work it out.