The irq_desc.status field will either go away or renamed to settings. Anyway we need to maintain compatibility to avoid breaking the world and some more. While moving bits into the core, I need to avoid that I use any of the still existing IRQ_ bits in the core code by typos. So that file will hold the inline wrappers and some nasty CPP tricks to break the build when typoed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/irq/internals.h | 2 ++ kernel/irq/irqdesc.c | 4 ++-- kernel/irq/settings.h | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/internals.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/irq/internals.h +++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/internals.h @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ */ #include +#include "settings.h" + #define istate core_internal_state__do_not_mess_with_it extern int noirqdebug; Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void desc_set_defaults(unsigned i desc->irq_data.chip_data = NULL; desc->irq_data.handler_data = NULL; desc->irq_data.msi_desc = NULL; - desc->status = IRQ_DEFAULT_INIT_FLAGS; + desc->status = _IRQ_DEFAULT_INIT_FLAGS; desc->handle_irq = handle_bad_irq; desc->depth = 1; desc->irq_count = 0; @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int __init early_irq_init(void) struct irq_desc irq_desc[NR_IRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp = { [0 ... NR_IRQS-1] = { - .status = IRQ_DEFAULT_INIT_FLAGS, + .status = _IRQ_DEFAULT_INIT_FLAGS, .handle_irq = handle_bad_irq, .depth = 1, .lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(irq_desc->lock), Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/settings.h =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/settings.h @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +/* + * Internal header to deal with irq_desc->status which will be renamed + * to irq_desc->settings. + */ +enum { + _IRQ_DEFAULT_INIT_FLAGS = IRQ_DEFAULT_INIT_FLAGS, +};