linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] xtensa: replace setup_irq() by request

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Date:   Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:41:53 -0800
From:   Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
To:     afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@...il.com>
Cc:     "open list:TENSILICA XTENSA PORT (xtensa)" 
        <linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xtensa: replace setup_irq() by request_irq()

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:41 PM afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@...il.com> wrote:
>
> request_irq() is preferred over setup_irq(). Invocations of setup_irq()
> occur after memory allocators are ready.
>
> Per tglx[1], setup_irq() existed in olden days when allocators were not
> ready by the time early interrupts were initialized.
>
> Hence replace setup_irq() by request_irq().
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1710191609480.1971@nanos
>
> Signed-off-by: afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@...il.com>
> ---
> Hi Max Filippov,
>
> i believe you are the maintainer of xtensa, if you are okay w/ this change,
> please consider taking it thr' your tree, else please let me know.

Sure. Applied to my xtensa tree.

--
Thanks.
-- Max