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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.41 still not testable by end users
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:35:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DAF8198.A66E0C82@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3smz4o415.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> >
> > request_irq() needs to take the allocation mode as an argument.
> > Should always have.  Sigh.  I'll fix it up sometime.
> 
> If you change it I would change it to let the caller pass it in. Then
> it's explicit and most drivers can just slab it somewhere in their
> private structures without any allocation.
> 

Well that would require that the drivers become aware of struct irqaction,
and make assumptions about how the particular arch handles interrupts.

But it's a bit academic.  ia32's request_irq() calls proc_mkdir() and
create_proc_entry().  So there's no point in feeding gfp_flags down
into request_irq or whatever.  We need to fix IDE still.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-18  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-17  2:35 2.5.41 still not testable by end users Steve Parker
2002-10-17  2:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-17 22:23   ` Thomas Molina
2002-10-17 22:39     ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-18  2:48       ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-18  3:35         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-21 10:59           ` Alan Cox
2002-10-18  8:43       ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-21 10:56       ` Alan Cox
2002-10-17 23:15     ` Steve Parker

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