linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Fixup hard_irq

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 09:44:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Fixup hard_irq_disable semantics

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch renames the raw hard_irq_{enable,disable} into
> __hard_irq_{enable,disable} and introduces a higher level
> hard_irq_disable() function that can be used by any code
> to enforce that IRQs are fully disabled, not only lazy
> disabled.

Why did you rename hard_irq_enable() too?

Isn't it more logical to have high-level hard_irq_disable() and
hard_irq_enable(), and a special low-level __hard_irq_disable()?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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