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Message-ID: <20070325202906.GC23487@strauss.suse.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:29:06 +0200
From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Add IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag to allow irqpoll
* Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de> [2007-03-24 00:21]:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>
> > * Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de> [2007-03-23 23:15]:
> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > >
> > > > irqpoll is broken on some architectures that don't use the IRQ 0 for the timer
> > > > interrupt like IA64. This patch adds a IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag.
> > >
> > > emn, please, cannot we come up with a better name - one that doesn't have
> > > "IRQ" 3 (!) times in it?...
> >
> > Well, it was suggested by Andrew. What's your suggestion?
>
> Purely esthetically (ehm, am I saying that?...) your original suggestion
> to use IRQF_IRQPOLL looks better to me. Or even IRQF_POLL, but, maybe,
> it's a bit too much of a simplification.
I personally don't care very much about the naming. So I think it's
Andrews final decision ...
Thanks,
Bernhard
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