From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932355AbWGAXpA (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:45:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932357AbWGAXpA (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:45:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:45982 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932355AbWGAXo6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:44:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:43:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, benh@kernel.crashing.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 00/44] Consolidate irq_action flags Message-Id: <20060701164338.192c0acd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060701145211.856500000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> References: <20060701145211.856500000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:54:18 -0000 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The recent interrupt rework introduced bit value conflicts with sparc. > Instead of introducing new architecture flags mess, move the interrupt > SA_ flags out of the signal namespace and replace them by interrupt > related flags. > > This allows to remove the obsolete SA_INTERRUPT flag and clean up > the bit field values. > > The patch was mostly created by a script, manually fixed up and reviewed. > Compile tested on various platforms. Boot tested on i386/x86_64 > The amount of downstream wreckage from these changes is remarkably small - I only had to diddle four or five patches and none of the git trees appear to be affected. Right now, when the subsystems trees are maximally-merged is the best time for this sort of thing.