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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than	passing to IRQ handlers
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* Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> >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.

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.

	Ingo