Re: [PATCH] add hook to generic irq code (free_irq)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 08:19:30 EST


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> This is needed because some architectures (well, presently only UML)
> needs to be notified as things are freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: cw@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> I can't say I'm 100% happy about this, either the name or a somewhat
> ugly hook that is called with a spinlock held but for lack of any
> better suggestions...

This looks rather bogus to me. What prevents UML from doing it's work
at the struct hw_interrupt_type level?

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