Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270313AbUJTNMe (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:12:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270068AbUJTNK3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:10:29 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:8713 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270205AbUJTNHX (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:07:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:07:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] add hook to generic irq code (free_irq) Message-ID: <20041020130715.GA20287@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Wedgwood , LKML , Ingo Molnar References: <20041020023156.GA8597@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041020023156.GA8597@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 19 On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > This is needed because some architectures (well, presently only UML) > needs to be notified as things are freed. > > Signed-off-by: cw@f00f.org > > > I can't say I'm 100% happy about this, either the name or a somewhat > ugly hook that is called with a spinlock held but for lack of any > better suggestions... This looks rather bogus to me. What prevents UML from doing it's work at the struct hw_interrupt_type level? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/