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<title>SAA9730: Remove driver</title>
<updated>2008-07-11T05:25:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-09T11:38:43+00:00</published>
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The only user of the board, the extremly dated and rare MIPS Atlas board,
has been removed, so this driver can go, too.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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The only user of the board, the extremly dated and rare MIPS Atlas board,
has been removed, so this driver can go, too.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>SAA9730: Fix build</title>
<updated>2007-10-15T18:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-14T13:13:58+00:00</published>
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Fix build breakage by the recent statistics cleanup in cset
09f75cd7bf13720738e6a196cc0107ce9a5bd5a0.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Fix build breakage by the recent statistics cleanup in cset
09f75cd7bf13720738e6a196cc0107ce9a5bd5a0.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink code</title>
<updated>2007-10-10T23:51:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-04T00:41:50+00:00</published>
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We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device,
and the default -&gt;get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us.

Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of
statistics, and driver-local -&gt;get_stats() hook where applicable.

This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers
remain to be updated.

[ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build
  regression... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device,
and the default -&gt;get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us.

Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of
statistics, and driver-local -&gt;get_stats() hook where applicable.

This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers
remain to be updated.

[ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build
  regression... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SAA9730: Handle multicast frames.</title>
<updated>2007-07-18T22:29:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明</name>
<email>yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-17T04:46:00+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;

--
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;

--
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().</title>
<updated>2007-07-11T05:08:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-11T05:08:12+00:00</published>
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It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb-&gt;dev like the other *_type_trans</title>
<updated>2007-04-26T05:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-26T00:40:23+00:00</published>
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One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SAA9730: Fix large pile of warnings</title>
<updated>2007-03-23T05:48:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-20T12:40:09+00:00</published>
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The SAA9730 driver doesn't quite grok what the difference between an ioport
and memory mapped I/O is.  It just happened to work on the one Linux
system the SAA9730 happens to spend it's misserable existence on.

drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_enable_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:68: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:70: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:72: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_disable_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:78: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:80: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_clear_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:85: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_block_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:91: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_unblock_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:97: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'show_saa9730_regs':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:150: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_allocate_buffers':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:292: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:295: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:302: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:305: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:312: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_cam_load':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:329: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:332: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_mii_init':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:369: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:395: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:403: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:410: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:432: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_control_init':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:470: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:474: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:478: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:484: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:487: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:490: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:493: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_stop':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:505: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:508: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:510: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_dma_init':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:536: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_start':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:556: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:560: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:564: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:567: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_tx':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:590: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_rx':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:664: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:729: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_write':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:848: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_set_multicast':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:943: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:949: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast

Fixed by using writel instead of outl.  42 warnings less.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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The SAA9730 driver doesn't quite grok what the difference between an ioport
and memory mapped I/O is.  It just happened to work on the one Linux
system the SAA9730 happens to spend it's misserable existence on.

drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_enable_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:68: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:70: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:72: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_disable_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:78: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:80: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_clear_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:85: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_block_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:91: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'evm_saa9730_unblock_lan_int':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:97: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'show_saa9730_regs':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:150: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_allocate_buffers':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:292: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:295: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:302: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:305: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:312: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_cam_load':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:329: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:332: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_mii_init':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:369: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:395: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:403: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:410: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:432: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_control_init':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:470: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:474: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:478: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:484: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:487: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:490: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:493: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_stop':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:505: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:508: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:510: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_dma_init':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:536: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_start':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:556: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:560: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:564: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:567: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_tx':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:590: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_rx':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:664: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:729: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_write':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:848: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c: In function 'lan_saa9730_set_multicast':
drivers/net/saa9730.c:943: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/net/saa9730.c:949: warning: passing argument 2 of 'outl' makes integer from pointer without a cast

Fixed by using writel instead of outl.  42 warnings less.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers/net: eliminate irq handler impossible checks, needless casts</title>
<updated>2006-10-06T18:56:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-06T18:56:04+00:00</published>
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- Eliminate check for irq handler 'dev_id==NULL' where the
  condition never occurs.

- Eliminate needless casts to/from void*

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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- Eliminate check for irq handler 'dev_id==NULL' where the
  condition never occurs.

- Eliminate needless casts to/from void*

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<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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<title>drivers/net: Remove deprecated use of pci_module_init()</title>
<updated>2006-08-19T21:48:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
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<published>2006-08-19T21:48:59+00:00</published>
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From: Michal Piotrowski &lt;michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski &lt;michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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From: Michal Piotrowski &lt;michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski &lt;michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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