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SubjectRe: [patch 29/32] genirq: Remove irq_reserve_irq[s]
On Thu, 8 May 2014, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Wed, 07 May 2014 15:44:21 -0000, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > No more users. And it's not going to come back. If you need
> > hotplugable irq chips, use irq domains.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>
> The ironic thing is that irq_domain may end up bringing this function
> back in some form as an optimization for irq_domains that need a
> contiguous range, but don't want to allocate all the irq_descs
> immediately. But if that happens it will be a very private API and it
> doesn't nullify removing the function now.

Right. We can deal with it when the need arises, but that's a
completely core internal issue then which is not going to be usable
outside of kernel/irq.

Thanks,

tglx


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