Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:48:38 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: New consolidate irqs vs . probe_irq_*() |
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* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Do you have any objection if I send a patch making the whole > probe_irq_* stuff optional on a CONFIG_ option ? (turning it into nops > like we used to have on ppc until now, if the option isn't set). > > I really don't want to mess with that racy mecanism that makes sense > for ISA only afaik, and it seems some drivers are trying to use it now > that it's there (/me looks toward yenta_socket) and I'm afraid of the > consequences since I cannot see how that thing can work properly in > the first place ;)
yeah. I've put it into a separate autoprobe.c file specifically for that reason, you can exclude it in the Makefile and can provide your own architecture version. Or should we make the no-autoprobing choice generic perhaps?
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