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Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:42 +0000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Ian Xen in this sense is simply not x86.  irq_cfg is not acpi or
>> ioapic or anything but x86 specific.  It has everything to do with
>> having a per cpu vector table of 256 entries and architecturally
>> receiving a vector number when an interrupt is fired.
>> 
>> It totally makes sense for Xen to do something different because
>> architecturally it has a completely different irq subsystem.
>
> OK, so that sounds like you would like the same patchset but without the
> irq_cfg renaming? or potentially with renaming to x86_blah instead (I'll
> rework to your preference).

Currently the renaming really makes it unclear what you are doing and for
some reason the description of the renaming rubbed me the wrong way.

Eric