[PATCH] Export irq_set_affinity()

[PATCH] Export irq_set_affinity()

[Emil Medve]

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
---

This is needed for drivers built as modules and running on SMP systems that want
to set initial/default explicit IRQ balancing

$ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-Export-irq_set_affinity.patch 
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 7 lines checked

0001-Export-irq_set_affinity.patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.

 kernel/irq/manage.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 77a51be..29c5b5a 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ int irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask)
 #endif
 	return 0;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_set_affinity);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_AUTO_IRQ_AFFINITY
 /*
-- 
1.5.6.3

Re: [PATCH] Export irq_set_affinity()

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:46:19 -0500
Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
> ---
> 
> This is needed for drivers built as modules and running on SMP
> systems that want to set initial/default explicit IRQ balancing

hi,

can you give an example of such a driver? It's custom to post such an
export patch as part of the patch that starts using the export...

Also... how much of this is already covered by the "don't balance" IRQ
flag already ?



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