From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933873AbYDWARv (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756739AbYDWARm (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54811 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756160AbYDWARl (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:16:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Adrian Bunk cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , LKML , rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [git patch] free_irq() fixes In-Reply-To: <20080423000529.GG28933@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Message-ID: References: <20080422221733.GA16260@havoc.gtf.org> <480E6DE5.6010103@garzik.org> <480E796E.4070001@garzik.org> <20080423000529.GG28933@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If it goes like the regs removal in one big patch around -rc1 into your > tree this shouldn't be a problem. Well, the regs removal had a real upside (it wasn't even sensible for all irq types), and really nobody used it apart from "system users" (ie Sysrq etc). I'm still waiting for anybody mentioning any upside at _all_ on removing "irq". Linus