Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

Alan Cox
2006-10-06T11:02:58Z

Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 20:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
> The overwhelming majority of irq handlers don't use the 'irq' argument
> either... the driver-supplied pointer is what drivers use, exclusively,
> to differentiate between different instances.
>
> If we are going to break all the irq handlers, I'd suggest going ahead
> and removing that one too.

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