linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] Scheduled removal of SA

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Message-Id: <20070123120245.ec3b0772.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:02:45 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] Scheduled removal of SA_xxx interrupt flags

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:33:45 -0000
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> The name space cleanup of the interrupt request flags (SA_xxx -> IRQF_xxx)
> left a 6 month grace period for the old deprecated flags. Remove them.

fwiw, I'll make this [patch 3/3], so the kernel compiles OK at each step.

This is going to break a lot of external stuff.  We should have found a way
to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_ warning) to warn
people of impending doom.  But I can't immediately find a way of doing
that.

If we _can_ find a way of doing this, I suspect we'll need to do it, and
give people another six months.  It's going to get ugly out there.  We
shall see...

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