Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966653AbXJSOxv (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:53:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933230AbXJSOxn (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:53:43 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:38789 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933050AbXJSOxm (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:53:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:53:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Jeff Garzik cc: LKML , Eric Biederman , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers In-Reply-To: <20071019075443.GA6407@havoc.gtf.org> Message-ID: References: <20071019075443.GA6407@havoc.gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 34 On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE > > This posting is just to demonstrate something that I have been keeping > alive in the background. I have no urge to push it upstream anytime > soon. > > The overwhelming majority of drivers do not ever bother with the 'irq' > argument that is passed to each driver's irq handler. > > Of the minority of drivers that do use the arg, the majority of those > have the irq number stored in their private-info structure somewhere. > > There are a tiny few -- a couple Mac drivers -- which do weird things > with that argument, but that's it. Jeff, thanks for doing this. Full ACK. We should do this right at the edge of -rc1. And let's do this right now in .24 and not drag it out for no good reason. Thanks, tglx - 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/