From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 15:56:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] dynamic IRQ allocation Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > The patch basically looks fine to me, except for some naming issues. > We now have vectors, global vectors, global system interrupts (GSIs), > irq numbers, and what not. This is confusing and hard to maintain. > We should settle on a consistent set of names (hopefully something > consistent with Linux, ACPI spec, and PCI spec). I tried to do this a > while ago (see big comment at the beginning of iosapic.c), but the > picture described there is incomplete for large machines and doesn't > do a good job at integrating with ACPI lingo. Anyone want to take a > stab? This has been bugging me for a long time, too. If nobody beats me to it, I'll post a proposal next week. How do you want to handle the merging -- we now have a couple patches that I did earlier, Takayoshi's patch, and the proposed naming patch that all touch iosapic.c? If you send me your current iosapic.c, I can work from that. -- Bjorn Helgaas - bjorn_helgaas at hp.com Linux Systems Operation R&D Hewlett-Packard Company