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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:09:36 -0600
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
To: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/21] Use MSI chip to configure MSI/MSI-X in all
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:09:45PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
> This series is based Bjorn's pci-next branch + Alexander Gordeev's two patches
> "Remove arch_msi_check_device()" link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/12/41
> 
> Currently, there are a lot of weak arch functions in MSI code.
> Thierry Reding Introduced MSI chip framework to configure MSI/MSI-X in arm.
> This series use MSI chip framework to refactor MSI code across all platforms
> to eliminate weak arch functions. It has been tested fine in x86(with or without
> irq remap).

I see you plan some updates, so I'll look for a v2 posting after v3.17 releases.
It will be great to get rid of some of those weak functions!

Bjorn