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Message-ID: <20090611232807.GA19752@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:28:07 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pm: Move nvs routines into a seperate file.
> > > > > > To fix this add some empty inline functions for !GENERIC_HARDIRQS.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't think that's right fix. If architecture does not use
> > > > > GENERIC_HARDIRQS, it may want to implement *_device_irqs()
> > > > > itself. Before your patch, it could, after your patch, it can not.
> > > > >
> > > > > Better put those empty functions in arch/s390/include?
> > > >
> > > > If any of the affected architectures wants to implement *_device_irqs()
> > > > itself, it can do the appropriate change in future. For now, let's not break
> > > > compilation on them, shall we?
> > >
> > > Well, if one of those architectures will want to implement
> > > *_device_irqs(), it will have to either modify s390, and all other
> > > !GENERIC_HARDIRQS architectures.
> >
> > Why will it? I think it will be sufficient to modify the header changed by
> > this patch and the architecture in question.
>
> Hmm, how? Putting #ifndef MY_ARCH into generic header? Inventing
> CONFIG_NON_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_BUT_I_NEED_DEVICE_IRQS?
Maybe playing with attribute((weak)) is the cleanest solution?
Pavel
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