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

Ingo Molnar
2006-10-06T11:34:27Z

* Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> >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.
>
> Nonetheless the -vast majority- of drivers don't use the argument at
> all, and the minority that do use it are not modern drivers.

i'm all for changing that too :)

Ingo