linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] alpha: Replace setup_irq() by request

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Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:38:18 -0700
From:   Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:     afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@...il.com>
Cc:     Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        linux-alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] alpha: Replace setup_irq() by request_irq()

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 5:48 AM afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard Henderson, Ivan Kokshaysky, Matt Turner,
>
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 06:38:41PM +0530, afzal mohammed 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>
>
> If this patch is okay, please consider acking it so as to take it via
> tglx.
>
> Regards
> afzal

Thanks afzal,

Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>