Re: [patch 2/2] genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code

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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:06:55AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Remove all code which is related to IRQF_DISABLED from the core kernel
> code. IRQF_DISABLED still exists as a flag, but becomes a NOOP and
> will be removed after a grace period. That way we can easily revert to
> the previous behaviour by just restoring the core code.

Perhaps I'm dense but it's not fully clear to me why is suddenly safe to use 
the behaviour of this flags on shared interrupts when it wasn't before?

-Andi

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