Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422686AbWJFOHm (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:07:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422690AbWJFOHm (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:07:42 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:36619 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422686AbWJFOHl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:07:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=h3R8JuANDh5FDIaRy0WHrfMZ/FA4i+Mvy3wS/EQiukXkWlcqXAM7LcegLK5qISfJYWXyXxRLVEARSHtiOTk7jvzNXUM8/3ZAiPNjNUr5VFZ1UK9EJXJd8Vo8tC0vXiMyUf5QzQ1P0T2BI1mo10BbWqqoLW3o3FnS537Ls2E20x4= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:07:39 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Alan Cox" , "David Howells" , "Andrew Morton" , "Thomas Gleixner" , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Greg KH" , "David Brownell" , "Alan Stern" In-Reply-To: <20061006112550.GA21733@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061002132116.2663d7a3.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002162049.17763.39576.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002162053.17763.26032.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <18975.1160058127@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <4525A8D8.9050504@garzik.org> <1160133932.1607.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45263ABC.4050604@garzik.org> <20061006111156.GA19678@elte.hu> <45263D9C.9030200@garzik.org> <20061006112550.GA21733@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 25 On 10/6/06, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >but pt_regs is alot less frequently used than irq - and where it's > > >used they arent "drivers" but mostly arch level code like hw-timer > > >handlers. > > > > Nonetheless the -vast majority- of drivers don't use the argument at > > all, and the minority that do use it are not modern drivers. > > i'm all for changing that too :) > What drivers use irq argument? I know i8042 does but only to detect whether interrupt routine was called because irq was raised or it was called manually and I can use dev_id for that... -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/