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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:53:22 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710191649120.22770@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019075443.GA6407@havoc.gtf.org>

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE
> 
> This posting is just to demonstrate something that I have been keeping
> alive in the background.  I have no urge to push it upstream anytime
> soon.
> 
> 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.
> 
> There are a tiny few -- a couple Mac drivers -- which do weird things
> with that argument, but that's it.

Jeff,

thanks for doing this.

Full ACK.

We should do this right at the edge of -rc1. And let's do this right
now in .24 and not drag it out for no good reason.

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19  7:54 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:55 ` [PATCH 1/9] irq-remove: core Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:27   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 17:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:04   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:21     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:50       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 19:58         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 23:13           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 23:46             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 23:53             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] irq-remove: arch non-trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 16:54   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-19 17:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:50     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:11   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 17:16     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:38       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] irq-remove: arch trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 4/9] irq-remove: driver non-trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:19   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:36     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:57 ` [PATCH 5/9] irq-remove: net driver trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:57 ` [PATCH 6/9] irq-remove: sound " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:58 ` [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 13:00   ` Salyzyn, Mark
2007-10-26 21:35     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:47       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-26 23:50         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27  0:12           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27  0:16             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27  0:37               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27  5:31                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27  7:06                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27  7:46                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 14:17                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-19  7:58 ` [PATCH 8/9] irq-remove: " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19  7:59 ` [PATCH 9/9] irq-remove: misc fixes and cleanups Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-10-19 18:38   ` [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:02       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:07     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-19 19:35       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 19:41         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-19 19:55           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:45 ` Mark Gross
2007-10-20  6:07 ` Greg KH

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