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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq: remove IRQF_DISABLED
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:18:03 +0100
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On Monday 02 March 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, I said nothing about how it is implemented in the IDE code itself. :)
> 
> Bart, you're missing the point. I'm _also_ not at all interested in how 
> it's implemented in the IDE code.
> 
> The whole - and only - point is that there are drivers that are _known_ to 
> require non-IRQF_DISABLED semantics. IDE is one such one.
> 
> > Fixing this is on long-term TODO (there was just a ton of more high-prio
> > stuff to take care of first).
> 
> Even if you can fix IDE to do everything using softirq's or other tricks 
> (threads, whatever), nothing really changes. It just means that now there 
> is one less driver that may need the non-IRQF_DISABLED semantics.

I didn't meant non-IRQF_DISABLED semantics (I see absolutely no point in
changing it) but IDE's internal "disable IRQs just to enable them" issue.  

[ Sorry for poorly explaining things. ]

Thanks,
Bart
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