Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:53:22 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers |
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE > > This posting is just to demonstrate something that I have been keeping > alive in the background. I have no urge to push it upstream anytime > soon. > > The overwhelming majority of drivers do not ever bother with the 'irq' > argument that is passed to each driver's irq handler. > > Of the minority of drivers that do use the arg, the majority of those > have the irq number stored in their private-info structure somewhere. > > There are a tiny few -- a couple Mac drivers -- which do weird things > with that argument, but that's it.
Jeff,
thanks for doing this.
Full ACK.
We should do this right at the edge of -rc1. And let's do this right now in .24 and not drag it out for no good reason.
Thanks,
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