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

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:55:29 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>>
>>> * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> 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.
> 
> How many of them do we have ? This is a wilful abuse of the API, so
> its not a big damage if they break.

I would prefer to simply clean up the drivers such that 
get_irqfunc_irq() and set_irqfunc_irq() are not needed.

One of the many reasons why I'm explicitly not pushing it upstream yet :)

	Jeff



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