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SubjectRe: [git patch] free_irq() fixes
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:52:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> 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
>...

If it goes like the regs removal in one big patch around -rc1 into your
tree this shouldn't be a problem.

> Linus

cu
Adrian

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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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