netdev - Re: [PATCH] net:ethernet:korina.c Removed IRQF

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Message-ID: <5204641C.3090905@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:08:04 +0530
From:	Kumar Gaurav <kumargauravgupta3@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
	emilio@...pez.com.ar, mugunthanvnm@...com, jg1.han@...sung.com,
	hsweeten@...ionengravers.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net:ethernet:korina.c Removed IRQF_DISABLED

On Friday 09 August 2013 08:58 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:30 +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
>> On Friday 09 August 2013 08:24 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 08:15 +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
>>>> On Friday 09 August 2013 08:09 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> []
>>>>> And, maybe it'd be better to use IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE
>>>>> instead of 0.
>>>> I tried googling what to replace IRQF_DISABLED with but found nothing.
>>>> In the patch fixed earlier (not by me) it was replaced with 0 so i did
>>>> same. But from now on I'll use IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE. Thanks
>>> Maybe that's not the right thing to do.
>>> 0 is what's almost exclusively used.
>>> IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE is only used a few times.
>>> It's also a lot longer.
>>>
>> Sorry to poke back. But just want to confirm. I should use
>> IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE and not 0 right?
> Hi again Kumar.
>
> There's no rush to submit these sorts of patches.
> Nothing is going to really be improved because of these
> changes.
>
> Submit an overall rfc patch description to the various
> mailing lists (affected MAINTAINERS generally don't read
> lkml but do read their specific mailing list) with options
> like 0 or IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE to show what the issues are
> and why you're doing this.
>
> Wait at least a week for any comment.
>
> You'll likely get some "useless churn" emails.
> You can generally ignore those.
>
> If you get any real comments, deal with them.
>
> Then after at least that week passes, submit the patches.
>
> cheers, Joe
>
Will surely follow that thanks :)
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