On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:59:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > The idea is to mandate IRQF_DISABLED for everybody, and since it doesn't > do any good to have it a flag if you have it always enabled, remove > it ;-) Bad. Very bad. So, when I use PIO IDE on embedded platforms, I have to have all other interrupts locked out for things like serial ports, network interfaces with small packet buffers, etc and I can't specify IRQF_DISABLE on such network interfaces anymore? No, this is a step backwards. Please don't go there. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
