linux-kernel - [GIT/PATCH 0/4] Do not use IRQF_TIMER for non timer interrupts

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Message-ID: <1280398573.24292.1684.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:16:13 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <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" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...abs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: [GIT/PATCH 0/4] Do not use IRQF_TIMER for non timer interrupts

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 09:49 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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)

Resending with this change. Plus I ran checkpatch on the whole lot (I
previously managed to run it only on the first patch) and fixed the
complaints.

Ian.

The following changes since commit fc0f5ac8fe693d1b05f5a928cc48135d1c8b7f2e:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../ericvh/v9fs

are available in the git repository at:

  git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git for-irq/irqf-no-suspend

Ian Campbell (4):
      irq: Add new IRQ flag IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
      ixp4xx-beeper: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupt
      powerpc: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupts
      xen: do not suspend IPI IRQs.

 arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/low_i2c.c |    5 +++--
 drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c        |    3 ++-
 drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c               |    9 +++++----
 drivers/xen/events.c                      |    1 +
 include/linux/interrupt.h                 |    7 ++++++-
 kernel/irq/manage.c                       |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


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