Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:15:08 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 20:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik: >> The overwhelming majority of irq handlers don't use the 'irq' argument >> either... the driver-supplied pointer is what drivers use, exclusively, >> to differentiate between different instances. >> >> If we are going to break all the irq handlers, I'd suggest going ahead >> and removing that one too. > > NAK to that, it will mess up a lot of older drivers which still use the > irq field and also those who want it to print
Look at the pt_regs change -- the irq change is similar:
The information does not go away, it is merely available via another avenue.
Jeff
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