Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:11:56 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers |
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* Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >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.
but pt_regs is alot less frequently used than irq - and where it's used they arent "drivers" but mostly arch level code like hw-timer handlers.
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