linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:57:47 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 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.

This is why I'm taking it slow, and not rushing to get this upstream :)

I am finding a ton of bugs in each get_irqfunc_irq() driver, so I would 
rather patiently sift through them, and push fixes and cleanups upstream.

Once that effort is done, everything should be in the 'trivial' pile and 
not have the logic that you are worried about (and thus there would be 
no need to add an additional branch to the error handling path).

	Jeff

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