Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > thanks for doing this. >> >> Yes. keeping this alive is good. >> >> The practical question is how do we make this change without breaking >> the drivers that use their irq argument. > > the get_irq_regs() approach worked out really well. We should do a > get_irq_nr() and be done with it?
The problem are some drivers today pass in 0 for their irq number to flag that they are calling the interrupt handler in a polling mode (not from interrupt context?) so the same logic doesn't quite apply. Do what you suggest would likely break those drivers. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
