Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:46:11 -0700
David Brownell <[email protected]> wrote:

> The only downside I can think of for dropping pt_regs is that now it's harder
> to just find the IRQ handler in a driver ... it's previously been all but
> guaranteed that the _only_ use of that type is the IRQ logic.  The upsides
> surely outweigh that.

You can use irqreturn_t for that.
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References:
- [PATCH 1/3] IRQ: Typedef the IRQ flow handler function type
  - From: David Howells <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
  - From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
  - From: David Brownell <[email protected]>

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