Re: [patch 0/7] Add IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag to allow irqpoll

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:

> * Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> [2007-03-23 23:15]:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > 
> > > irqpoll is broken on some architectures that don't use the IRQ 0 for the timer
> > > interrupt like IA64. This patch adds a IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag.
> > 
> > emn, please, cannot we come up with a better name - one that doesn't have 
> > "IRQ" 3 (!) times in it?...
> 
> Well, it was suggested by Andrew. What's your suggestion?

Purely esthetically (ehm, am I saying that?...) your original suggestion 
to use IRQF_IRQPOLL looks better to me. Or even IRQF_POLL, but, maybe, 
it's a bit too much of a simplification.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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