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

[Alan Cox]

Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 20:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
> The overwhelming majority of irq handlers don't use the 'irq' argument 
> either...  the driver-supplied pointer is what drivers use, exclusively, 
> to differentiate between different instances.
> 
> If we are going to break all the irq handlers, I'd suggest going ahead 
> and removing that one too.

NAK to that, it will mess up a lot of older drivers which still use the
irq field and also those who want it to print

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