On Wed, 20 May 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Wed, 20 May 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 May 2015, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > Scripting this may be a little complex, because the variable can be used > > > > in one way in one execution path (eg if branch) and another way (or not > > > > at > > > > all) in another. Let me know if help is needed. > > > > > > I feared that, but at least identifying all functions, where the irq > > > argument is used inside the function itself is really key for such a > > > massive rework. > > > > It's not impossible, but I may need to think a bit how best to do it. > > I pretty much expected that you would say that :) > > But seriously, the first important thing is to find all functions and > to check whether they use irq internaly. Jiang has done that > 'manually' or such, so the number of function which need an actual > change are not that big. > > But I certainly don't want to hold you off thinking about it. Such > stuff is not a unique problem :) What is the status of this? I am close to having a semantic patch that works. The current version touches 133 files, but I haven't checked all of them. This includes both the local functions and the generic ones, but not the cases where the name of the handler function is a local variable or arbitrary expression. This occurs in around 30 files. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
