On Tuesday 03 June 2008 22:45:22 Christian Borntraeger wrote:

This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use
hvc_console without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.

Two questions.  Is it possible to make the timer backoff a third kind of 
notifier?  And is it possible to make the dependency static, rather than 
dynamic, or does someone need two options at runtime?

Thanks,
Rusty.