From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] genericirq: change ack/mask in irq_chip to take irq_desc in addition to irq
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:51:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7D9A39.4070308@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7D7552.2010001@zytor.com>
On 02/18/2010 09:13 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/18/2010 09:04 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> May I ask why these methods and why pass both irq and desc instead of
>> just desc?
>>
>> I think in the long run passing both irq and desc through several
>> functions may incur some maintenance cost that it would be nice not to
>> pay (register pressure and increased chance of typos).
>>
>
> Indeed; if the IRQ number is needed the function should just get it from
> desc->irq.
ok, change unsigned int irq to struct irq_desc *desc in irq_chip member...
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-18 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-13 2:49 [PATCH 0/8] tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 1/8] irq: remove not need bootmem code Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 2/8] radix: move radix init early Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 3/8] sparseirq: change irq_desc_ptrs to static Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 4/8] sparseirq: use radix_tree instead of ptrs array Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86: remove arch_probe_nr_irqs Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 6/8] use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86: use num_processors for possible cpus Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 2:49 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86: make 32bit apic flat to physflat switch like 64bit Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 3:44 ` [PATCH 0/8] tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-13 4:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 22:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-02-13 22:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 9:54 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 11:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 12:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 22:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 23:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 23:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-14 0:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-14 0:49 ` Yinghai Lu
[not found] ` <4B7CA9A1.3020806@kernel.org>
2010-02-18 2:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] radix tree spareirq addon cleanup Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18 2:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: use vector_desc instead of vector_irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18 17:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 6:39 ` [PATCH -v3 1/2] " Yinghai Lu
2010-02-23 6:44 ` [PATCH -v2 2/2] genericirq: change ack/mask in irq_chip to take irq_desc instead of irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 21:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-24 22:07 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-25 0:22 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-02 14:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-03 8:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-03 10:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <4B84F013.9040708@kernel.org>
2010-02-24 9:26 ` [PATCH -v3 " Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 9:27 ` [PATCH -v4 1/2] x86: use vector_desc instead of vector_irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18 2:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] genericirq: change ack/mask in irq_chip to take irq_desc in addition to irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18 17:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-18 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-18 19:51 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-02-18 2:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions Yinghai Lu
2010-02-19 1:36 ` [tip:x86/irq] " tip-bot for Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 12:26 ` [PATCH 0/8] tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 22:36 ` Yinghai Lu
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