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

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

Look at the pt_regs change -- the irq change is similar:

The information does not go away, it is merely available via another avenue.

	Jeff



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