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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610021445570.3952@g5.osdl.org>
Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than
 passing to IRQ handlers



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.

		Linus
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