Passing vector number (was Re: API modification request)

[Eric Valette]

Sergei Organov wrote:
> Valette Eric <eric.valette at free.fr> writes:
> [...]
> 
>>I would tend to agree with Till : my personnal feeling is that the vector
>>itself is useless so I would vote for either a void* or nothing (sorry
>>joel).
> 
> 
> Vector itself *is* sometimes useful. I've recently wrote code for MPC8260
> where every of SCC1...SCC4 controllers generates its own vector and it is
> useful in this case. However, void* (or rtems_isr_arg_t) is more general
> anyway so I'd vote for it.

Sure. What I mean is that the vector is used to find something else like 
private data for each device in general. In that sense, the vector is 
not as usefull as a void*. Besides, looking at the code when I changed 
the irq API, nobody was actually using this vector...


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