Cleaning Up irq Handlers

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 21, 2007 7:05 PM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews
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Jeff Garzik posted a series of nine patchs to the lkml titled to "remove [the] 'irq' argument from all irq handlers", explaining, "the overwhelming majority of drivers do not ever bother with the 'irq' argument that is passed to each driver's irq handler. Of the minority of drivers that do use the arg, the majority of those have the irq number stored in their private-info structure somewhere." He noted that he had no intention to push the patches upstream anytime soon.

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