Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:20:57 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: mfd tree build failure |
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:44:14PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:11:13PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I don't see getting them exported flying, especially not in the > > timeframe we've got for the merge window. Keeping them non-exported has > > been a deliberate decision on the part of the genirq maintainers.
> Out of curiosity, what's the reasoning behind thatdecision ?
Unless you're actually implementing an interrupt controller those APIs should never be called and people should be using flags on request_irq() or similar. Driver authors have been awfully fond of bypassing those APIs, but this prevents them doing so.
None of this is really a practical issue unless you implement an IRQ controller in a driver and that's very rare (or has been up until now).
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