linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] irq: rename IRQF_TIMER to IRQF_NO

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1007291045060.2471@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:49:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] irq: rename IRQF_TIMER to IRQF_NO_SUSPEND

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Ian Campbell wrote:

> Continue to provide IRQF_TIMER as an alias to IRQF_NO_SUSPEND since I
> think it is worth preserving the nice self-documenting name (where it
> is used appropriately). It also avoid needing to patch all the many
> users who are using the flag for an actual timer interrupt.

I'm not happy about the alias. What about:

#define __IRQF_TIMER		0x00000200
#define IRQF_NO_SUSPEND		0x00000400

#define IRQF_TIMER    (__IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND)

Thanks,

	tglx
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