Re: [PATCH 2/5] Ensure NO_IRQ is appropriately defined on all architectures

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:43:46AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Please put the definition into <asm/irq.h> and <linux/interrupt.h>,
> > hardirq.h is rather misnamed and about the internal irq/softirq/preempt
> > mask mechanisms.
> 
> Either you're wrong or I'm confused.  I don't see the include path which
> necessarily drags asm/irq.h in from linux/interrupt.h.  There's a
> linux/interrupt.h -> linux/hardirq.h -> asm/hardirq.h path, but not all
> asm/hardirq.h files drag in asm/irq.h.  Look at sparc64 or alpha for
> examples of that.

Indeed.  But that still doesn't mean we should pollute <linux/hardirq.h>
with it..

> Personally, I'd like to see asm/hardirq.h go away and move all its
> contents into asm/irq.h.  And I'd like to see asm/irq.h included
> explicitly from linux/interrupt.h.  And I'd like to see drivers stop
> including asm/irq.h.

Agreed.

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