Re: New consolidate irqs vs . probe_irq_*()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do you have any objection if I send a patch making the whole
> probe_irq_* stuff optional on a CONFIG_ option ? (turning it into nops
> like we used to have on ppc until now, if the option isn't set).
> 
> I really don't want to mess with that racy mecanism that makes sense
> for ISA only afaik, and it seems some drivers are trying to use it now
> that it's there (/me looks toward yenta_socket) and I'm afraid of the
> consequences since I cannot see how that thing can work properly in
> the first place ;)

yeah. I've put it into a separate autoprobe.c file specifically for that
reason, you can exclude it in the Makefile and can provide your own
architecture version. Or should we make the no-autoprobing choice
generic perhaps?

	Ingo
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