linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Deprecate SA

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Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:36:57 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 12:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yeah.  I tried something like this and code broke.  For example,
> arch/mips/sni/irq.c has
> 
> struct irqaction sni_isa_irq = {
> 	.handler = sni_isa_irq_handler,
> 	.name = "ISA",
> 	.flags = SA_SHIRQ
> };

Grr. I fixed that one at least once.

> there are presumably only a few such stragglers left in the tree but there
> are probably more instances out-of-tree.
>
> But I think we should just apply your patch anyway.  Only a small
> proportion of things will break and we do need to be rid of the old
> definitions one day.

For above use cases there is no way of emiting a deprecation warning.
OTOH it leads the user directly to the place, where he can find the fix.
Removing them completely might leave folks clueless.

> It would be great if someone could do another pass across the tree,
> clean up the remaining SA_* usages.

The above seems the only one in Linus tree. I check -mm as well.

	tglx


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