Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] 4 of 6 introduce acpi_global_irq_to_irq()

David Mosberger
2004-03-09T23:44:39Z

>>>>> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:26:31 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> said:

Bjorn> i386, x86_64, ia64, ACPI: Introduce acpi_global_irq_to_irq()
Bjorn> Rename acpi_irq_to_vector() to acpi_global_irq_to_irq().
Bjorn> This function takes an ACPI global IRQ (often called a
Bjorn> "global system interrupt", but "global_irq" seems to be
Bjorn> commonly used in Linux), and converts it to a Linux IRQ.

Bjorn> This removes IA64 and PCI_USE_VECTOR #ifdefs from ACPI.

The ia64-specific changes have my blessing.

However, I'd _much_ prefer "gsi" in lieu of "global_irq". It's much
easier to think of the former as a numbering-scheme separate from the
Linux irq numbers. Justs my 2 cents...

--david