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Message-Id: <20070512111243.aa68b481.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 11:12:43 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: bbpetkov@...oo.de
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Scheduled removal of SA_xxx interrupt flags
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:07:04 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@...oo.de> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> i've been going over the interrupt-handling code and noticed that the SA_xxx
> interrupt flags are scheduled for removal sometime in 9/2007 with a prior
> grace period of 6 months for people to fix external stuff. In order to do so,
> a __deprecated inline function wraps those flags.
> What puzzles me is that the __deprecated-patches are only in -mm and not in
> mainline. Is the -mm-testing audience wide enough to cause userspace to fix
> their apps prior to the SA_xxx removal or am I missing something? I.e,
> shouldn't tglx's patches hit mainline first?
>
No, the deprecation is in mainline now
+static inline
+unsigned long __deprecated deprecated_irq_flag(unsigned long flag)
+{
+ return flag;
+}
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