linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: remove deprecated IRQF

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Message-ID: <5253ADBB.2040009@nvidia.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2013 12:31:15 +0530
From:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
CC:	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"jslaby@...e.cz" <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED

On Monday 07 October 2013 10:37 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 10/06/2013 12:30 AM, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>> This patch proposes to remove the use of the IRQF_DISABLED flag
>>
>> It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.
> Laxman, care to comment? I'm not sure why the code explicitly specifies
> IRQF_DISABLED if it's already a no-op. Perhaps the code expects
> IRQF_DISABLED to do something, and hence there's some bug that needs to
> be fixed because of it doesn't?
>

We are having this flag in our downstream driver from very long and 
hence this is there when I wrote for the upstream driver. I checked with 
BT without this flag and it worked fine so it is fine to remove this flag.

Acked-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
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