Re: [-mm patch] aic7xxx: check irq validity (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 15:19 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > well... why not go one step further and eliminate the flags argument
> > entirely? And use pci_name() for the name (so eliminate the argument ;)
> > and always pass pdev as data, so that that argument can go away too....
> > 
> > that'll cover 99% of the request_irq() users for pci devices.. and makes
> > it really nicely simple and consistent.
> 
> Disagree.  That would involve rewriting a lot of drivers.
> 
> flags: may or may not need sample-random flag.

ok fair.. but I'd then almost call it "samplerandom" not "flags"...


> 
> name: is always the ethernet interface, for net drivers, or did you 
> forget from your irqbalance days?  ;-)

I'd say the "always" isn't quite true .. I remember that well.
If it's always the pci device at least irqbalance can look up the device
type in sysfs ;)


> data: in practice, is _rarely_ struct pci_dev.  It's usually a 
> driver-private structure which is the structure most frequently 
> accessed.  struct pci_dev* is rarely accessed inside the interrupt 
> handler, except maybe somewhere deep in an error handling path.

hmmm could put a pointer to the private data in the pci_dev at least...
that'd be generally useful, and then this can either just pass that,
or have the isr get to it that way (whichever makes more sense)

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