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Message-ID: <20130913085607.GA20681@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:56:07 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	"steve.glendinning@...well.net" <steve.glendinning@...well.net>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	davidb@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: smsc: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED

[adding David Brown]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 05:27:47AM +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> This patch proposes to remove the IRQF_DISABLED flag from
> code in drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/
> 
> It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...e-electrons.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.h   | 2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc9420.c | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.h
> index 370e13d..5730fe2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc91x.h
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static inline void mcf_outsw(void *a, unsigned char *p, int l)
>  #define SMC_insw(a, r, p, l)	mcf_insw(a + r, p, l)
>  #define SMC_outsw(a, r, p, l)	mcf_outsw(a + r, p, l)
>  
> -#define SMC_IRQ_FLAGS		(IRQF_DISABLED)
> +#define SMC_IRQ_FLAGS		0

After this change, the only machine that defines the flags to anything other
than IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING is MSM, which uses IRQF_TRIGGER_HIGH. David: do
you actually need this? The irq_chip code under mach-msm doesn't seem to
distinguish between the two.

Will
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