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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> > thanks for doing this.
>>
>> Yes. keeping this alive is good.
>>
>> The practical question is how do we make this change without breaking
>> the drivers that use their irq argument.
>
> the get_irq_regs() approach worked out really well. We should do a
> get_irq_nr() and be done with it?

The problem are some drivers today pass in 0 for their irq number
to flag that they are calling the interrupt handler in a polling
mode (not from interrupt context?) so the same logic doesn't quite apply.

Do what you suggest would likely break those drivers.

Eric
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