From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40166 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203AbWJEICL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:02:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: <20061002162049.17763.39576.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002162053.17763.26032.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002132116.2663d7a3.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002201836.GB31365@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:01:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1160035315.26064.20.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Howells , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH , David Brownell , Alan Stern List-ID: On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yeah, well, it's been discussed before, and the real problem is not the > patch itself, it's the damn drivers maintained outside the tree, and > people who want to maintain the same driver for multiple different > versions of the kernel. Maintaining drivers out of tree is shameless autoflagellation at the best of times. We really don't care -- if we didn't make life hard for them in this way they'd only go and stick pins under their fingernails to make up for the lack of pain. If you think about it like that, we're probably doing them a favour -- at least this way they're _safe_. > So if the patch works against my current tree, and nobody objects, I can > certainly apply it. > > So speak up, people... Go for it. -- dwmw2