Re: [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:54:43AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> The overwhelming majority of drivers do not ever bother with the 'irq'
> argument that is passed to each driver's irq handler.
> 
> Of the minority of drivers that do use the arg, the majority of those
> have the irq number stored in their private-info structure somewhere.
> 
> There are a tiny few -- a couple Mac drivers -- which do weird things
> with that argument, but that's it.
> 
> For the large sweeps through the tree, these patches are grouped into
> "trivial" changes -- simply removing the unused irq arg -- or all other
> changes.

Very cool stuff, I like it :)

greg k-h
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