On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:06:44AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The following patch series removes the IRQF_DISABLED functionality > from the core interrupt code and runs all interrupt handlers with > interrupts disabled. As was covered in previous discussions, what about drivers such as SMC91x which take a long time to retrieve packets from the hardware? Always running handlers with IRQs disabled will kill things such as serial on these platforms. So based on your description, I have no option but to NAK this. -- 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
