Alan Cox wrote:
Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 20:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
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.
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.
Jeff
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