Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934384AbXJTGET (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:04:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752637AbXJTGEA (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:04:00 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41205 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753656AbXJTGD7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:03:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:07:13 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Cc: LKML , Eric Biederman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers Message-ID: <20071020060713.GB12130@kroah.com> References: <20071019075443.GA6407@havoc.gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071019075443.GA6407@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 23 On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:54:43AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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. > > For the large sweeps through the tree, these patches are grouped into > "trivial" changes -- simply removing the unused irq arg -- or all other > changes. Very cool stuff, I like it :) greg k-h - 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/