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From: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] msi vector targeting abstractions
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:59:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051222135924.GA24232@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051222103606.GA29608@infradead.org>

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:36:06AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Mainly I did it this way 'cause msg_address seems to be geared toward specific
> > hw (apic?).  In the case of altix interrupt hw, we don't know about
> > dest_mode et. al., but only care about the raw address.
> 
> In that case you should probably kill the struct as I suggested and only
> keep the shift & mask defines in the file for the apic hw implementation.

Yes, that's what I've done (mostly) for the next patch round.  Still haven't
killed the struct, but at least its isolated to apic code now.

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-22 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-21 18:42 [PATCH 0/4] msi abstractions and support for altix Mark Maule
2005-12-21 18:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] msi archetecture init hook Mark Maule
2005-12-21 18:53   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-21 19:03     ` Mark Maule
2005-12-21 19:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-21 18:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] msi vector targeting abstractions Mark Maule
2005-12-21 18:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-21 19:17     ` Mark Maule
2005-12-21 19:05   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-21 19:17     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-21 19:33     ` Mark Maule
2005-12-22 10:36       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 13:59         ` Mark Maule [this message]
2005-12-21 18:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] per-platform IA64_{FIRST,LAST}_DEVICE_VECTOR definitions Mark Maule
2005-12-21 19:09   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-21 19:18     ` Mark Maule
2005-12-21 19:32       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-22  6:26         ` Keith Owens
2005-12-22 13:14           ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-21 18:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] altix: msi support Mark Maule

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