RE: [PATCH 05/24] omap4: Add needed IRQ line into irqs.h

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Walmsley [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:03 PM
> To: Shilimkar, Santosh
> Cc: tony@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> lrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Cousson, Benoit
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 05/24] omap4: Add needed IRQ line into irqs.h
> 
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Walmsley [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:15 PM
> > > To: Shilimkar, Santosh
> > > Cc: tony@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > lrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Cousson, Benoit
> > > Subject: RE: [PATCH 05/24] omap4: Add needed IRQ line into irqs.h
> > >
> > > How about just submitting the auto-generated IRQ file, convert the
> > > existing in-tree users, and leave the old macros there and mark them
> > > deprecated with a comment?  Then for the next release, submit a patch to
> > > change the newly-merged users and remove the deprecated macros?
> > Sounds ok if we can keep both exist for some time. Will do this.
> 
> There shouldn't be any need to keep the old macros after the 2.6.34 merge
> window.  Probably the best time to remove them would be in a patch queued
> for the 2.6.35 merge window.
> 
> Any new patches that use 44xx IRQs would be required to use the
> autogenerated IRQ macros after the 2.6.34 merge.
> 
> Now would also be a good time to get the autogenerated DMA data in, for
> similar reasons.
Both DMA files can't co-exist since the names are aligned. I shall try DMA
changes as well. 

Regards,
Santosh
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