Re: [PATCH 2/9] irq-remove: arch non-trivial

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Fri Oct 19 2007 - 13:16:59 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
In this case we can easily pass the irqno into request_irq, allowing
us to do "unsigned int intno = (unsigned int)dev_id;".

I suspect this is the case for the majority of the non-trivial users
as well.


Not that easy, alas :) Save for weirdos like the mac drivers I highlighted, it seems like most drivers in the non-trivial already pass a useful pointer to request_irq().

But as I mentioned, most of the "non-trivial" uses are actually trivial -- just not as simple as removing the 'int irq' argument. Most of the time the irq number is used in non-critical ways like printk's. A few times its used to index into a structure (something dev_id could replace).

Jeff


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