[PATCH for 3.9-rc] arm: mvebu: Use local interrupt only for the timer 0

[Jason Cooper]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:00:51PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Jason, Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:09:35 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > The commit 3a6f08a37 "arm: mvebu: Add support for local interrupt",
> > managed the 28th first interrupts as local interrupt to match the
> > hardware specification. Among these interrupts there are the Gigabits
> > Ethernet ones used by the mvneta driver. Unfortunately the state of
> > the percpu_irq API prevents the driver to use it.
> > 
> > Indeed the interrupts have to be freed when the .stop() function is
> > called. As the free_percpu_irq() function don't disable the interrupt
> > line, we have to do it on each CPU before calling this. The function
> > disable_percpu_irq() only disable the percpu on the current CPU and
> > there is no function which allows to disable a percpu irq on a given
> > CPU. Waiting for the extension of the percpu_irq API, this fix allows
> > to use again the mvneta driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
> 
> Would it be possible to get this commit pushed for 3.9-rc? Without it,
> the Marvell Armada 370/XP network interfaces are completely broken. The
> patch has been sent almost a week ago, and has received Tested-by from
> Ryan Press, Masami Hiramatsu and myself.

It's in the queue, I just got a little behind.

thx,

Jason.