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SubjectRe: [Patch/RFC]: check CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS for request/free_irq in interrupt.h
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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:41 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> I currently try to evaluate virtio_console for kvm on s390 and got
> the following problem:
>
> virtio_console uses hvc_alloc with irq=0. That means, register_irq
> and free_irq are never called by hvc_console.c, but the linker will
> still complain about unknown references to free_irq and request_irq.
>
> As the whole kernel/irq folder depends on CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
> it seems consistent to declare all functions from kernel/irq only if
> CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS is set. Otherwise we can use empty functions.
>
> This patch does that for register_irq and free_irq.
>
> Comments?

Please don't. So far whenever the linker complained about the missing
register_irq/free_irq functions it has been a bug in a Kconfig file.
We should not silently accept code that requires the concept of an
irq-line when there is no such thing on a s390.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.




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