Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> In this case we can easily pass the irqno into request_irq, allowing >> us to do "unsigned int intno = (unsigned int)dev_id;". >> >> I suspect this is the case for the majority of the non-trivial users >> as well. > > > Not that easy, alas :) Save for weirdos like the mac drivers I highlighted, > it > seems like most drivers in the non-trivial already pass a useful pointer to > request_irq().
I was talking about vm86_32.c in particular. Where we allow user space through the vm86 interface to directly handle the isa irq. > But as I mentioned, most of the "non-trivial" uses are actually trivial -- > just > not as simple as removing the 'int irq' argument. Most of the time the irq > number is used in non-critical ways like printk's. A few times its used to > index into a structure (something dev_id could replace). Yes. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
