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

• To: David Howells <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
• From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
• Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:52:40 -0400
• Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>, Greg KH <[email protected]>, David Brownell <[email protected]>, Alan Stern <[email protected]>
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
• Sender: [email protected]
• User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913)

The overwhelming majority of irq handlers don't use the 'irq' argument either... the driver-supplied pointer is what drivers use, exclusively, to differentiate between different instances.

If we are going to break all the irq handlers, I'd suggest going ahead and removing that one too.

	Jeff


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

---

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
    • From: Alan Cox <[email protected]>

• References:
  • Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
    • From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
  • [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: David Howells <[email protected]>

• Prev by Date: Using "Asynchronous Notifications" within an interrupt handler
• Next by Date: Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes
• Previous by thread: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fixup after irq changes
• Next by thread: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]