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From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Subject: How to get rid of IRQF_DISABLED for good?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:44:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53063F09.9000102@free-electrons.com> (raw)

Hi,

In spite of the patches I have been sending (and resending!) over the
past months, there are still 118 occurrences of the idle IRQF_DISABLED
flag in the kernel code. This corresponds to 31 patches which haven't
been accepted yet.

What would you advise to get rid of IRQF_DISABLED for good?

  * Send a treewide patch removing the last occurrences in one shot,
    bypassing the regular maintainers? Who could take it?
  * Remove the definition of IRQF_DISABLED to force the individual
    maintainers (and out of tree drivers!) to update their code? It
    could be a way of seeing which code isn't maintained any more ;)
  * Continue to resend the patches for a few more cycles, until the
    corresponding maintainers can no longer bear the discredit?
  * Any other solution?

Thank you in advance for your advise!

Michael.

-- 
Michael Opdenacker, CEO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
+33 484 258 098


             reply	other threads:[~2014-02-20 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 17:44 Michael Opdenacker [this message]
2014-02-20 18:17 ` How to get rid of IRQF_DISABLED for good? Levente Kurusa
2014-03-05  6:01   ` Michael Opdenacker
2014-03-06 20:43     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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