On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:59:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The idea is to mandate IRQF_DISABLED for everybody, and since it doesn't
> do any good to have it a flag if you have it always enabled, remove
> it ;-)

Bad.  Very bad.

So, when I use PIO IDE on embedded platforms, I have to have all other
interrupts locked out for things like serial ports, network interfaces
with small packet buffers, etc and I can't specify IRQF_DISABLE on
such network interfaces anymore?

No, this is a step backwards.  Please don't go there.

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Russell King
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