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<entry>
<title>net: convert more to %pM</title>
<updated>2008-10-28T00:47:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-28T00:47:26+00:00</published>
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A number of places still use %02x:...:%02x because it's
in debug statements or for no real reason. Make a few
of them use %pM.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A number of places still use %02x:...:%02x because it's
in debug statements or for no real reason. Make a few
of them use %pM.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error()</title>
<updated>2008-07-26T19:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-26T02:44:49+00:00</published>
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Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER
architecture does:

This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices
are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423).

I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for
KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it
difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread).  So I
CC'ed this to KVM camp.  Comments are appreciated.

A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added.  If the
pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it.  If it's
NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before.

If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register
a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works
with hot plugging).  It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate
dma_mapping_ops per device.

The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the
device unlike other DMA operations.  So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per
device.  Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function
so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different
dma_mapping_error functions.

The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error.  The patch
is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in
all the architecture.

This patch:

dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA
operations.  So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device.

Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER
IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function.  x86 IOMMUs use device
argument.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi]
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda &lt;muli@il.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER
architecture does:

This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices
are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423).

I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for
KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it
difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread).  So I
CC'ed this to KVM camp.  Comments are appreciated.

A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added.  If the
pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it.  If it's
NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before.

If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register
a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works
with hot plugging).  It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate
dma_mapping_ops per device.

The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the
device unlike other DMA operations.  So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per
device.  Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function
so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different
dma_mapping_error functions.

The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error.  The patch
is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in
all the architecture.

This patch:

dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA
operations.  So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device.

Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER
IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function.  x86 IOMMUs use device
argument.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi]
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda &lt;muli@il.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>V4L/DVB (8129): pluto_set_dma_addr() fix</title>
<updated>2008-07-20T10:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-22T17:20:39+00:00</published>
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bogus cpu_to_le32() when passing dma address to hardware
via writel() - writel() converts itself.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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bogus cpu_to_le32() when passing dma address to hardware
via writel() - writel() converts itself.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>V4L/DVB (7538): Adds selectable adapter numbers as per module option</title>
<updated>2008-04-24T17:08:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Janne Grunau</name>
<email>janne-dvb@grunau.be</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-09T22:13:13+00:00</published>
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The adapter_nr module options can be used to allocate static adapter
numbers on a driver level. It avoids problems with changing DVB apapter
numbers after warm/cold boot or device unplugging and repluging.

Each driver holds DVB_MAX_ADAPTER long array of the preferred order of
adapter numbers.

options dvb-usb-dib0700 adapter_nr=7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 would result in a
reversed allocation of adapter numbers.

With adapter_nr=2,5 it tries first to get adapter number 2 and 5. If
both are already in use it will allocate the lowest free adapter number.

Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau &lt;janne-dvb@grunau.be&gt;
Acked-by: Hermann Pitton &lt;hermann.pitton@arcor.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky &lt;mkrufky@linuxtv.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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The adapter_nr module options can be used to allocate static adapter
numbers on a driver level. It avoids problems with changing DVB apapter
numbers after warm/cold boot or device unplugging and repluging.

Each driver holds DVB_MAX_ADAPTER long array of the preferred order of
adapter numbers.

options dvb-usb-dib0700 adapter_nr=7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 would result in a
reversed allocation of adapter numbers.

With adapter_nr=2,5 it tries first to get adapter number 2 and 5. If
both are already in use it will allocate the lowest free adapter number.

Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau &lt;janne-dvb@grunau.be&gt;
Acked-by: Hermann Pitton &lt;hermann.pitton@arcor.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky &lt;mkrufky@linuxtv.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>V4L/DVB (5745): Dvb: use '+=' instead of '=' for EXTRA_CFLAGS</title>
<updated>2007-07-18T17:23:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trent Piepho</name>
<email>xyzzy@speakeasy.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-04T23:18:51+00:00</published>
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The Makefiles in the dvb directory tree used '=' when defining EXTRA_CFLAGS
rather than '+=', which is far more common in the rest of the kernel source.
  =  14 times (9 of which this patch removes)
 :=  25 times
 += 123 times
This change also has certain advantages for the out of kernel v4l-dvb build
system.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho &lt;xyzzy@speakeasy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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The Makefiles in the dvb directory tree used '=' when defining EXTRA_CFLAGS
rather than '+=', which is far more common in the rest of the kernel source.
  =  14 times (9 of which this patch removes)
 :=  25 times
 += 123 times
This change also has certain advantages for the out of kernel v4l-dvb build
system.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho &lt;xyzzy@speakeasy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>V4L/DVB (5578): Workaround for bad hardare/firmware on some pluto2 devices</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T13:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>holger@muscate-magnussen.de</name>
<email>holger@muscate-magnussen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-01T12:25:56+00:00</published>
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pluto2_driver: Workaround for pluto2 card reporting wrong number of
received packets and flooding system with interrupts.

This patch constitutes a workaround for a hardware/firmware problem of the
pluto2-based card (e.g., Satelco EasyWatch).

It can happen in rare cases that the card gets into a mode where it
always reports back a number of received packets (nbpackets) which is
larger than the maximum permissible number of packets (TS_DMA_PACKETS).
The workaround that is already in the driver in function pluto_dma_end
reports back zero received packets. In spite of the (in reality) zero
received packets the card continues to generate interrupts at a very
high rate, which can effectively stall the system.

The patch resets the TS logic, which puts the card back into normal
operations.

Signed-off-by: Holger Magnussen &lt;holger@muscate-magnussen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter &lt;obi@linuxtv.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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pluto2_driver: Workaround for pluto2 card reporting wrong number of
received packets and flooding system with interrupts.

This patch constitutes a workaround for a hardware/firmware problem of the
pluto2-based card (e.g., Satelco EasyWatch).

It can happen in rare cases that the card gets into a mode where it
always reports back a number of received packets (nbpackets) which is
larger than the maximum permissible number of packets (TS_DMA_PACKETS).
The workaround that is already in the driver in function pluto_dma_end
reports back zero received packets. In spite of the (in reality) zero
received packets the card continues to generate interrupts at a very
high rate, which can effectively stall the system.

The patch resets the TS logic, which puts the card back into normal
operations.

Signed-off-by: Holger Magnussen &lt;holger@muscate-magnussen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter &lt;obi@linuxtv.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>V4L/DVB (5361): Dvb-pll: Fix Kconfig files and allow dvb-pll to be optional</title>
<updated>2007-04-27T18:44:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trent Piepho</name>
<email>xyzzy@speakeasy.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-27T15:31:28+00:00</published>
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A number of drivers selected DVB_PLL when they did not need it, and some
that did need it did not select it.

The DVB_PLL option is given a name and help text, so that it will show up
in the config menu.  DVB_PLL support can be turned on if an out-of-tree
driver needs it.

The standard dvb fe customization support is added to dvb-pll.h.  Since
all modules which select DVB_PLL do so unconditionally, it is not
possible to turn dvb-pll off when an enabled module selects it, unlike
most of the other frontend/tuner drivers.  This is because the users of
dvb-pll have static references to dvb-pll symbols other than the attach
function.  If these references are removed, then dvb-pll will be
disablable as the other frontend/tuner drivers are.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho &lt;xyzzy@speakeasy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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A number of drivers selected DVB_PLL when they did not need it, and some
that did need it did not select it.

The DVB_PLL option is given a name and help text, so that it will show up
in the config menu.  DVB_PLL support can be turned on if an out-of-tree
driver needs it.

The standard dvb fe customization support is added to dvb-pll.h.  Since
all modules which select DVB_PLL do so unconditionally, it is not
possible to turn dvb-pll off when an enabled module selects it, unlike
most of the other frontend/tuner drivers.  This is because the users of
dvb-pll have static references to dvb-pll symbols other than the attach
function.  If these references are removed, then dvb-pll will be
disablable as the other frontend/tuner drivers are.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho &lt;xyzzy@speakeasy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>V4L/DVB (5496): Pluto2: fix incorrect TSCR register setting</title>
<updated>2007-04-02T14:03:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Oberritter</name>
<email>obi@linuxtv.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-02T13:44:35+00:00</published>
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The ADEF bits in the TSCR register have different meanings in read and
write mode. For this reason ADEF has to be reset on every
read-modify-write operation.
This patch introduces a special write function for this register, which
takes care of it.

Thanks to Holger Magnussen for pointing my nose at this problem.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter &lt;obi@linuxtv.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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The ADEF bits in the TSCR register have different meanings in read and
write mode. For this reason ADEF has to be reset on every
read-modify-write operation.
This patch introduces a special write function for this register, which
takes care of it.

Thanks to Holger Magnussen for pointing my nose at this problem.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter &lt;obi@linuxtv.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>i2c: Discard the i2c algo del_bus wrappers</title>
<updated>2006-12-10T20:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-10T20:21:33+00:00</published>
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They are all only calling i2c_del_adapter, so we may as well do
it directly.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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They are all only calling i2c_del_adapter, so we may as well do
it directly.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers</title>
<updated>2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-05T13:55:46+00:00</published>
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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