Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > How would you test something like this? It would touch all 
> > architectures and nearly all drivers too.
> 
> "If it compiles, it works".
> 
> Pretty close.

Note that the IRQ threading code in the -rt tree already passes NULL as 
the pt_regs argument to /all/ drivers [except the timer interrupt]. So 
there's more than just the compilation evidence ;-)

	Ingo
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