INTR_FILTER?

[Rui Paulo]

On 2 Feb 2009, at 11:38, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 30/01/2009 00:30 Rui Paulo said the following:
>> On 29 Jan 2009, at 17:51, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> BTW, INTR_FILTER seems quite useful. Why, then, it is not the  
>>> default?
>>
>> The drivers would have to be ported to INTR_FILTER. Right now, only  
>> asmc
>> is using INTR_FILTER, so I don't think there is much gain in making  
>> it
>> the default.
>
> I am not sure about this part. From the code it seems that INTR_FILTER
> is backward-compatible, i.e. it gives something and doesn't take away
> anything. The API and conventions seems to be the same too.
> There could be some edge cases, of course.

Ok, but why enable it in GENERIC right now if the only driver that  
uses INTR_FILTER is asmc?
There's not much point in enabling it now. Maybe in the future.

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo

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