Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:07:13 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers |
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:54:43AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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. > > For the large sweeps through the tree, these patches are grouped into > "trivial" changes -- simply removing the unused irq arg -- or all other > changes.
Very cool stuff, I like it :)
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