RFC: removing irq_mask and irq_list from client drivers

David Hinds dhinds at sonic.net
Fri Apr 23 16:43:44 BST 2004


On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:28:40PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> I wonder if anybody still needs irq_mask and irq_list parameters used in
> all client drivers.  Their purpose is to set possible ISA IRQs for the
> card.  The mask is assigned to link->irq.IRQInfo2, which is then combined
> with the IRQ map in the driver.

You are correct that there is really very little reason to allow
resource overrides at the driver level.  I think it would be fine 
to drop these parameters.

-- Dave



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