Re: [PATCH 01/15] ARM minor irq handler cleanups

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> I didn't realise you'd changed all the interrupt handlers too.  Good luck
> with that :)

Hey, I did, and last time I checked (months ago, to be honest) it boots 
on x86 :)


> Is it a flag day or do we have a migration plan?  I'd have thought that we
> could do a request_irq_new(irqreturn_t (*)(void *d)) and keep things
> compatible?
> 
> 
> 
> <checks>
> 
> Actually, that tree applies reasonably sanely to the full -mm lineup. 
> There are rejects of course, but they're easily fixed and a lot are due to
> file motion which git will handle anyway,
> 
> The bigger problem is newly-added irq handlers which your patch doesn't
> know about:
> 
> y:/usr/src/25> grep '^+.*request_irq[(]' patches/*.patch | wc -l
> 74
> 
> If we had a migration plan (ie: request_irq_new(), above) then this of
> course wouldn't be a problem.

A fair comment...

My goal has been to get the tree to the point where a flag-day patch 
"make the obvious change to each irq handler" /could/ be applied -- 
following the lead of the huge 'pt_regs arg removal' that went in in Oct 
2006.

Since I knew reaching that point would take time -- I started this 
project in Aug/Sep 2006 -- I simply didn't bother with a migration plan 
at the time.  I figured once the tree was prepped, which has taken over 
a year, _then_ I would waste maintainers' time discussing migration.

	Jeff