[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Fixup hard_irq_disable semantics

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This patch renames the raw hard_irq_{enable,disable} into
> __hard_irq_{enable,disable} and introduces a higher level
> hard_irq_disable() function that can be used by any code
> to enforce that IRQs are fully disabled, not only lazy
> disabled.

Why did you rename hard_irq_enable() too?

Isn't it more logical to have high-level hard_irq_disable() and
hard_irq_enable(), and a special low-level __hard_irq_disable()?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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