linux-kernel - Re: Removal of IRQF

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Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:45:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>
Cc:	tony@...mide.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removal of IRQF_DISABLED

On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:53:07 +0100 Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Andrew asked me to prepare one big patch that removes the
> IRQF_DISABLED flag entirely.  I already sent a few small patches that
> remove the usage of this flag,  two of them [1, 2] have been applied
> by Tony to omap-for-v4.1/l3.  Hence, I cannot remove the definition
> now and leave the files of [1, 2] untouched.
> 
> I don't want to break anything or cause troubles while merging.  So
> shall I wait until v4.1 to send the big patch or is there are nice way
> to get it merged now (e.g., getting [1, 2] into omap-for-v4.0)?
> 

You're over-sweating this - merging patches is what we do ;)

Just send the patch, against current Linus mainline and I'll work it
out.

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