linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 6/9] arm: Tell irq work about self IPI support

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:35:49 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/9] arm: Tell irq work about self IPI support

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:21:23PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:52:54PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > ARM irq work IPI support depends on SMP support. That information is
> > partly known at early boottime. Lets implement
> > arch_irq_work_has_own_interrupt() accordingly.
> 
> Sorry, this makes no sense on its own.  As there's no context for this
> to know whether it's an appropriate change or not, it would be
> irresponsible fo me to provide an ack for something I don't understand.

Ah you're right, I should have Cc'ed you for all patches in the series.
I didn't because I wanted to avoid spaming you but sending that patch alone
doesn't make much sense.

Let me bounce the rest to you.
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