linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/15] sound: add missing HAS_IOPORT and GENERIC

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Message-ID: <1376233.Q2CJ8VJpTB@wuerfel>
Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:36:15 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, axboe@...nel.dk, cbou@...l.ru,
	davem@...emloft.net, dtor@...l.ru, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	jkosina@...e.cz, jslaby@...e.cz, khali@...ux-fr.org,
	mchehab@...hat.com, perex@...ex.cz, sameo@...ux.intel.com,
	w.sang@...gutronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] sound: add missing HAS_IOPORT and GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies

On Thursday 07 February 2013 14:32:06 Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> That sounds reasonable. And a quick grep seems to indicate that s390
> is the last architecture with !GENERIC_HARDIRQS.
> However having two completely different IRQ subsystems within one
> architecture will bring up some interesting questions like e.g.
> how should /proc/interrupts look like? Or /proc/stat:intr ?

/proc/interrupts can still be managed by architecture code, and
you can put in there whatever makes sense. I would suggest
keeping the current code for it, or adding the GENERIC_HARDIRQ
support at the end of it.

> Jan considered turning GENERIC_HARDIRQS on for PCI support, but didn't.
> I don't know why he didn't and since he left, we can't ask him anymore.

I briefly talked about it with him a couple of months ago, and
he said that the thought Martin would hate it.  I still think
it's the best solution though.

> So for the time being I'd appreciate it if we can simply add the
> additional GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies where needed, since I consider
> a working allmodconfig quite important.
>
> Later on we should indeed try to switch to GENERIC_HARDIRQS and then
> git rid of that config option completely. However I leave that to
> Sebastian and Gerald who now take care of our PCI code 

Yes, makes sense.

	Arnd
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