linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq: remove IRQF

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Message-Id: <1236016611.5330.971.camel@laptop>
Date:	Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:56:51 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq: remove IRQF_DISABLED

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:11 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

<story about how PIO IDE sucks>

> So this is not as simple as your patch. Not even _nearly_.

Yuckness, yes that does complicate matters significantly. 

That leaves us trying to find all request_irq() invocations that do not
have IRQF_DISABLED.. /me puts it on the todo list.

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