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

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Message-ID: <520452F4.2070804@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:54:52 +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 03:03 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 14:20 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:09:18 +0300
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:50:49AM +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
>>>> Removed IRQF_DISABLED as it's no-op and should be removed
>>>>
>>> What?  No, that doesn't sound right.
>> The IRQ layer completely ignores the flag for several releases
>> now, it's a complete no-op as his commit message so adequately
>> states.
>>
>> So what's the problem again? :-)
I'm quite new to kernel development. I saw in one of the patches which 
fixes IRQF_DISABLED issue by removing so i did.
> Wouldn't it be better to do a sed 's/IRQF_DISABLED/0/' instead?
> Maybe Kumar wants to/is doing that?
Yes i wanted to do the same and i retrieved list of all programs 
containing IRQF_DISABLED but i didn't wanted to send all of them in one 
patch. I would be sending them for one program in one patch.

Regards
Kumar Gaurav
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