Re: commit "genirq: record trigger type" and powerpc

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I noticed that after commit 0c5d1eb77a8be917b638344a22afe1398236482b 
> (genirq: record trigger type), several of our powerpc platforms now 
> spew out warnings about "No set_type function for IRQ..." (in 
> particular our Cell blades). This is because in our generic platform 
> code we call set_irq_type() with information from the device tree 
> when we establish the interrupt mappings; but we do this regardless 
> of whether the PIC can actually set a type (it might irrelevant 
> because the type is essentially hardcoded or as in the case for Cell 
> the interrupts are just messages being past around that have no real 
> concept of type, or we could even be dealing with a virtual PIC as 
> on the PS3).
> 
> So, would it be possible to turn the:
> 
> 	pr_warning("No set_type function... 
> 
> into a pr_debug() in kernel/irq/manage.c so when our users upgrade 
> to newer kernels they don't get scared by a whole bunch of new 
> warnings?

Sure, please send a patch with a changelog.

	Ingo