On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 21:34 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 18:14 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > plain text document attachment (genirq-troll-patch.patch) > > > > __do_IRQ() has been deprecated after a two years migration phase in > > > > commit 0e57aa1. Since then another 18 month have gone by. > > > > > > > > So here's the status three and a half years after the flow based > > > > infrastructure was merged: > > > > > > > > The following architectures are fully converted to the new flow > > > > handler code: > > > > > > > > arm, avr32, blackfin, frv, microblaze, mips, mn10300, powerpc, score, sh, > > > > sparc 64bit, tile, x86, xtensa > > > > > > > > (avr32 and xtensa should set CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ > > > > though) > > > > > > > > The following architectures are not using the generic interrupt > > > > infrastructure at all and are therefor unaffected: > > > > > > > > s390, m68k, sparc 32bit > > > > > > > > The following architectures are still using __do_IRQ(): > > > > > > > > alpha, cris, ia64, h8300, m32r, m68knommu, parisc, um > > > > > > > > So now the question arises what to do with __do_IRQ(). > > > > > > > > Removing it would be the right thing, but that'll break 8 archs, so > > > > it's probably not considered a good idea, though for most of them the > > > > conversion should be reasonably trivial. > > > > > > > > I'm happy to move that code into kernel/irq/cruft.c forever if there > > > > is no way to get the remaining users converted in the forseeable > > > > future. It looks like they can cope with the annoying build warning > > > > nicely. > > > > > > Well, if you're going to deprecate something that 8 architectures rely > > > on, it would be nice to tell people ... or even just linux-arch ... most > > > > It's been told people. The deprecation patch was on LKMl (I don't > > remember whether I sent it to linux-arch), > > You didn't ... I checked. > > > but there were a bunch of > > related patches to clean out the old irq related cruft which were sent > > to linux-arch and also hit the parisc tree. There is an entry in > > feature-removal-schedule.txt for 18 month now. > > > > > of us do read that. I've actually never noticed the warning the commit > > > activated in any of my parisc compiles for some reason. > > > > CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED=y perhaps ? > > > > I'm really tired of your whining when you did not get a personalized > > taylored to your needs info. > > So you send out deliberate flame bait and then suffer humour failure at > an ironic reply? Darn, I missed the ironic tag. I added you to the "beware-of-british-irony" filter of my .procmailrc to avoid that in the future. Thanks, tglx -- 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