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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent nested interrupts when the IRQ stack is near
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:40:43 -0700 (PDT)

> It makes _all_ interrupts act like IRQF_DISABLED. So it actually fixes 
> your issue, by making IRQF_DISABLE a no-op - not because it doesn't exist 
> any more, but because the non-IRQF_DISABLED case would not exist any more.

Yep, Peter Z. explained this to me under seperate cover.

Great!