[PATCH and RFC] Remove request_8xxirq

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20020620214551.GI16052 at opus.bloom.county> you wrote:
>
> > Isn't this more or less  the  same  idea  as  presented  by  Wolfgang
> > Grandegger more than half a year ago? See
>
> Pretty similar, yeap.
>
> > By then there was a common agreement that it was a bad idea from  the
> > beginning (although we need and use it for RTAI anyway).
>
> Well, Dan Malek didn't like it (and he doesn't like it again either).
> When you did this for RTAI, I assume (since I didn't look at the patch)

Grrrgh.. Why do we send a patch, when you don't even look at it?

> that in the end it was so RTAI wouldn't have to special-case 8xx things
> in the common code (ie request_irq() or cpm_install_handler()) ?

No. It's needed because otherwise you cannot register  a  RT  handler
for CPM interrupts.

> > It's amusing to see how ideas get recycled again and again.
>
> heh.

Well, actually my amusement is limited. This whole business how  some
patches  make  it  or  don't  make  it into some kernel tree is higly
frustrating.

Wolfgang Denk

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