linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] irq-remove: arch non-trivial

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:16:47 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] irq-remove: arch non-trivial

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In this case we can easily pass the irqno into request_irq, allowing
> us to do "unsigned int intno = (unsigned int)dev_id;".
> 
> I suspect this is the case for the majority of the non-trivial users
> as well.

Not that easy, alas :)  Save for weirdos like the mac drivers I 
highlighted, it seems like most drivers in the non-trivial already pass 
a useful pointer to request_irq().

But as I mentioned, most of the "non-trivial" uses are actually trivial 
-- just not as simple as removing the 'int irq' argument.  Most of the 
time the irq number is used in non-critical ways like printk's.  A few 
times its used to index into a structure (something dev_id could replace).

	Jeff

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