Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:52:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git patch] free_irq() fixes |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > [...] > > Since the #irq-remove project involves removal of the 'irq' argument > > from interrupt handlers (unused 99.8% of the time), > [...] > > After going over every irq handler (read: almost every driver in the kernel, > plus arch code), my #irq-remove branch has confirmed what my gut already knew > -- the 'irq' argument is completely unused for almost every driver. So I was > taking that line of thought as far as it went.
Ok, that's just not going to happen.
What's the upside? Really?
I can tell you the downsides: - tons of huge patches with ugly churn - total disaster when it comes to any drivers that are maintained over multiple versions and/or out-of-tree like the DRI stuff
so those upsides had better be really big.
Linus
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