Re: 2.5.41 still not testable by end users

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
21 Oct 2002 11:59:15 +0100


On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 04:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But it's a bit academic. ia32's request_irq() calls proc_mkdir() and
> create_proc_entry(). So there's no point in feeding gfp_flags down
> into request_irq or whatever. We need to fix IDE still.

I don't plan to fix the IDE layer, or the sound drivers, or the hundred
odd other drivers where this is close to impossible to fix. What is
broken is how we do IRQ setup still being like 0.12 not split.

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