On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 12:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Yeah. I tried something like this and code broke. For example, > arch/mips/sni/irq.c has > > struct irqaction sni_isa_irq = { > .handler = sni_isa_irq_handler, > .name = "ISA", > .flags = SA_SHIRQ > };
Grr. I fixed that one at least once. > there are presumably only a few such stragglers left in the tree but there > are probably more instances out-of-tree. > > But I think we should just apply your patch anyway. Only a small > proportion of things will break and we do need to be rid of the old > definitions one day. For above use cases there is no way of emiting a deprecation warning. OTOH it leads the user directly to the place, where he can find the fix. Removing them completely might leave folks clueless. > It would be great if someone could do another pass across the tree, > clean up the remaining SA_* usages. The above seems the only one in Linus tree. I check -mm as well. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/