Re: [PATCH] arch/mips: remove duplicate structure field initialization

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:23:45PM -0700, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> I'm still on the mailing list, and had seen this going by.  I'm not sure  
> where that second .flags declaration got added.  Way, way back when I  
> was pretty much the only maintainer of the file, irq_ipi.flags was  
> explicitly  initialized to IRQF_DISABLED by an actual assignment  
> statement in setp_cross_vpe_interrupts(), and the per-CPUness was  
> handled by an "irq_desc[cpu_ipi_irq].status |= IRQ_PER_CPU".  My guess  
> is that first someone (maybe me) migrated the IRQF_DISABLED assignment  
> into the declaration of the struct, and that later someone found the  
> IRQ_PER_CPU thing bogus or deprecated and converted it into a second  
> .flags line in the struct declaration, missing the fact that there was  
> already one there.
>
> In any case, I'm willing to sign off on Julia's patch.  It's certainly  
> more important that the IRQ be PER_CPU than initially DISABLED, but  
> during the time when SMTC was seeing its heaviest testing at MIPS, both  
> attributes were true.

I've reverted my patch and merged Julia's original patch with an extra
comment added.

Thanks Julia,

   Ralf