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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:58:45 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> > All the arch/*/kernel/irq.c implementations are distressingly similar. 
> > Andrey Panin did a bunch of work a while back to start consolidating the
> > common code but it didn't quite get finished off.
> 
> Do you remember what was unfinished about it?  I tried his patch, and it
> seemed to work fine; there were certainly still a few things left unmerged,
> but it was a _huge_ improvement over the current state.

Well I thought that many architectures were missing.  But upon a re-read, I
see that he allowed architectures to be cut over to GENERIC_IRQ one at a
time.  Seems fine.

Although at some point we really do need to stop cleaning stuff up, defer such
things into 2.7 and concentrate upon 2.5 bugs.