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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Add IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag to allow irqpoll
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* Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> [2007-03-24 00:21]:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> 
> > * Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> [2007-03-23 23:15]:
> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > 
> > > > irqpoll is broken on some architectures that don't use the IRQ 0 for the timer
> > > > interrupt like IA64. This patch adds a IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag.
> > > 
> > > emn, please, cannot we come up with a better name - one that doesn't have 
> > > "IRQ" 3 (!) times in it?...
> > 
> > Well, it was suggested by Andrew. What's your suggestion?
> 
> Purely esthetically (ehm, am I saying that?...) your original suggestion 
> to use IRQF_IRQPOLL looks better to me. Or even IRQF_POLL, but, maybe, 
> it's a bit too much of a simplification.

I personally don't care very much about the naming. So I think it's
Andrews final decision ...


Thanks,
   Bernhard