Re: [PATCH 01/15] ARM minor irq handler cleanups

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:22:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> This change's main purpose is to prepare for the patchset in
>> jgarzik/misc-2.6.git#irq-remove, that explores removal of the
>> never-used 'irq' argument in each interrupt handler.
> 
> What do you mean?  I know at least one of two interrupt handlers
> in-tree that use their 'irq' arguments.

They can use new function get_irqfunc_irq(), similar to the existing 
method of getting pt_regs for the tiny number of users who need that 
sort of info, when pt_regs was removed.

But after having gone over, literally, every single interrupt handler in 
the kernel, I can safely say that 99.8% never reference that argument, 
and 0.1% that do already have the same information via another route.

That leaves only a few drivers that need it without modification, and 
even fewer drivers that need it after modification.

	Jeff