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SubjectRe: [patch 34/75] arm: ep93xx: Kill another instance of broken irq_desc fiddling
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Ryan Mallon wrote:

> On 02/11/2011 12:37 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 1. This is a copy of the borked code in gpiolib
> > 2. If you need information about irq state which is not exposed, then talk
> > to the maintainer of that code instead of adding totaly horrible open
> > coded access.
>
> This code got added simply because it is sometimes helpful to be able to
> see how various gpio/irq pins are configured. I'm happy to drop the
> functionality (see below), but is there a better way to get this
> information? Is it already available somewhere else (proc, sys)?

No, but we can add that if it's required in a sane form.

I don't have objections to expose debug informations in general, but
I have objections that random code does this especially, when it's
duplicated random code :)

Thanks,

tglx


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