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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:39:55 +1000
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On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:59 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> Heh, I wondered about that, but there hasn't been any users for at
> least 5 years (as evidenced by commit e12514650b, "Fix loop logic in
> irq_alloc_virt()") so it was looking pretty dead, and it made the
> patch to switch to using irq_alloc_desc*() quite a bit simpler if it
> was removed.  :-)
> 
> I'm not particularly attached to this patch, so I can drop it from the
> series. 

Well, Willy recently added support for the MSI block allocation so ...

Cheers,
Ben.