Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: print out irq nr for msi/ht -v2

["Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:13:43 am Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> v2: fix hpet compiling
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c    |    3 +++
>>  arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c |    7 +++++++
>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
>> index 422c577..686505a 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
>> @@ -467,6 +467,9 @@ static int hpet_setup_irq(struct hpet_dev *dev)
>>       irq_set_affinity(dev->irq, cpumask_of_cpu(dev->cpu));
>>       enable_irq(dev->irq);
>>
>> +     printk(KERN_DEBUG "hpet: %s is using irq %#x aka %d for MSI\n",
>> +                      dev->name, dev->irq, dev->irq);
>> +
>
> Why do we want to print the irq as hex?  Do we do that anywhere else?
> I think we should pick one format and stick with it, and I think
> decimal is the logical choice because it's the most common.

when sparseirq is enabled, irq for msi will be bus_nr/dev/func + 12bits.
so show it as hex is more straight. but we can not use hex in
/proc/interrupts --ABI want decimal.

just try to print out...in log, so user could get some idea that who
is using it...

YH