netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] 3c52x: remove IRQF_SAMPLE

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Message-Id: <20101019.023227.189701743.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] 3c52x: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM from legacy
 MCA drivers.

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:21:51 -0400

> If you are genuinely using one of these legacy MCA drivers
> then you are tragically on hardware where you really don't
> have the extra CPU cycles to be wasting on this.
> 
> In addition, it makes two less cases for people to inadvertently
> blindly copy flags from without explicitly thinking whether it
> makes sense -- see the addition to feature-removal.txt as per
> commit 9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied, thank you.
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