Re: [PATCH] genirq: Provide reverse compat handling for irq_chip methods.

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> kernel/irq/chip.c provides compat wrappers for when users of the
> new-style (->irq_foo()) irq_chip methods try to call into irq_chips
> that provide only old-style (->foo()) methods, but doesn't currently
> provide compatibility in the other direction.
> 
> As there exist chained irq flow handlers outside kernel/irq/ that have
> not been converted over to call the new methods yet, this means that
> the irq_chips that they are chained off can't be converted to the new
> methods yet.
> 
> This patch adds reverse compat wrappers, so that old-style flow
> handlers can call into new-style irq_chips, too, and the flow handlers
> and irq_chips can be converted to the new API independently.

Uuurg. That's backwards. Why not fixing the flow handlers first ?
 
Thanks,

	tglx