From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932201AbWF3UV0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:21:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932217AbWF3UV0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:21:26 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:21128 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932201AbWF3UVZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:21:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060630.132128.26278530.davem@davemloft.net> To: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SA_TRIGGER_* vs. SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060630184745.GA13429@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20060629.141703.59468770.davem@davemloft.net> <1151676007.25491.712.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060630184745.GA13429@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Russell King Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:47:45 +0100 > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:00:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > We have the same hassle with SA_INTERRUPT. The question arises, if we > > should move the SA_XX flags for interrupts completely out of the signal > > SA name space. Rename to IRQ_xxx and put them into interrupt.h. > > It would probably be sensible, but isn't there rather a lot of > drivers to update? We could do it as a transitional thing - > #define the old SA_* names to the new in interrupt.h for a while. This seems like a sane plan. Someone skilled in sed and awk could probably do the whole current tree up in a short amount of time though :-) I would then only keep the existing defines around for the sake of being polite to out-of-tree folks :) Put them in the deprecation schedule, then zap them for good a few months from now.