Re: [PATCH 3/8] irq: make set_affinity to return status -v2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >  arch/alpha/kernel/sys_dp264.c         |    8 +++-
> > >  arch/alpha/kernel/sys_titan.c         |    4 +-
> > >  arch/arm/common/gic.c                 |    4 +-
> > >  arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/irq.c       |    4 +-
> > >  arch/ia64/hp/sim/hpsim_irq.c          |    3 +
> > >  arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c            |   10 +++--
> > >  arch/ia64/kernel/msi_ia64.c           |   16 +++++---
> > >  arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c             |    4 +-
> > >  arch/ia64/sn/kernel/msi_sn.c          |    8 ++--
> > >  arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c  |    8 +++-
> > >  arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h           |    2 -
> > >  arch/mips/kernel/irq-gic.c            |    5 +-
> > >  arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-smtc.c      |    4 +-
> > >  arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c        |    8 ++--
> > >  arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c         |    8 ++--
> > >  arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c              |    6 ++-
> > >  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c |   12 +++---
> > >  arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c            |    4 +-
> > >  arch/sparc/kernel/irq_64.c            |   12 ++++--
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c        |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> > >  drivers/parisc/iosapic.c              |    6 ++-
> > >  drivers/xen/events.c                  |   12 +++---
> > >  include/linux/irq.h                   |    2 -
> > >  23 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
> []
> > There is one omission: this should be Cc:-ed to 
> > linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, because it affects all architectures.
> 
> How is one supposed to know this tidbit?

by hanging around on lkml long enough? :)

If you think about automating it into scripts/get_maintainer.pl - 
maybe you could add a trigger that if a change affects more than a 
single arch/* architecture then linux-arch should be generated too 
for the Cc: list? It would be nice to have.

	Ingo
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