From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:37:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] (-mm) drivers/pci/msi: explicit declaration of msi_register Message-Id: List-Id: References: <44172F0E.6070708@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060314134535.72eb7243.akpm@osdl.org> <44176502.9050109@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060315235544.GA6504@suse.de> <44198210.6090109@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060316181934.GM13666@sgi.com> <4419BD64.5070705@ce.jp.nec.com> <20060316194155.GP13666@sgi.com> <20060316232837.GA12408@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060316232837.GA12408@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:28:37 -0800") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: Mark Maule , Jun'ichi Nomura , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, shaohua.li@intel.com Greg> As msi.c today is pretty platform-specific as is, I don't Greg> have a problem with moving the ia64 stuff also into that Greg> directory. Especially as it will help solve issues like Greg> this a lot better. I think we really want to make drivers/pci/msi.c less platform-specific. Both powerpc and sparc64 are starting to pay attention to MSI, so we should really be trying to move things in the direction of a clean separation of generic MSI handling and Intel-specific bits. - R.