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

Ingo Molnar
2006-10-02T21:55:45Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > How would you test something like this? It would touch all
> > architectures and nearly all drivers too.
>
> "If it compiles, it works".
>
> Pretty close.

Note that the IRQ threading code in the -rt tree already passes NULL as
the pt_regs argument to /all/ drivers [except the timer interrupt]. So
there's more than just the compilation evidence ;-)

Ingo