From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756931AbYDTWtq (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753216AbYDTWtj (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:49:39 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36810 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752895AbYDTWti (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:49:38 -0400 Message-ID: <480BC87C.9060305@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:49:32 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King , Andrew Morton CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, kernel@wantstofly.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] ARM minor irq handler cleanups References: <20080418164411.b1e1628d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <48093AF3.2080807@garzik.org> <20080418181741.d6f365c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <480BC0FC.8020908@garzik.org> <20080420224008.GB8733@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080420224008.GB8733@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 06:17:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> If we had a migration plan (ie: request_irq_new(), above) then this of >>> course wouldn't be a problem. >> A fair comment... > > Then we'll be stuck with request_irq_new() for the next 10 years or so. (un-hijacking topic ) Another fair comment. I am secretly hoping for the ease of a flag day (a la pt_regs) rather than a decade-long transition, but I readily to confess to dodging the entire issue by doing all these cleanups first :) Jeff