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From: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
To: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	shaohua.li@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (-mm) drivers/pci/msi: explicit declaration of msi_register
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:18:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060317011827.GD13666@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317004108.GH9746@esmail.cup.hp.com>

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:41:08PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:49:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > There are other transaction based interrupt subsystems that are typically
> > > arch specific (e.g. GSC device interrupts on PA-RISC). So far, MSI is the
> > > only generic one and that is clearly part of the PCI spec. 
> > 
> > Yes, that's fine.  But the core pci msi structures do not need to be
> > exported for the whole kernel to see, right?  That's my only point here.
> 
> Yes, got it. I agree.
> 

Ok, I'll move the SN stuff down into pci/drivers.  I think that's ok, and
still allow the separation we want.  Basicly there's [almost] generic
msi core code (msi.c) and platform dependent interrupt controllers
(msi-apic.c and soon msi-altix.c).

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-17  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14 21:01 [PATCH] (-mm) drivers/pci/msi: explicit declaration of msi_register Jun'ichi Nomura
2006-03-14 21:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-14 21:59   ` Greg KH
2006-03-14 22:25     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-15  0:51   ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2006-03-15 23:55     ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 15:19       ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2006-03-16 18:19         ` Mark Maule
2006-03-16 19:32           ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2006-03-16 19:41             ` Mark Maule
2006-03-16 23:28               ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 23:37                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-16 23:45                   ` Grant Grundler
2006-03-16 23:47                   ` Greg KH
2006-03-16 23:41           ` Grant Grundler
2006-03-16 23:49             ` Greg KH
2006-03-17  0:41               ` Grant Grundler
2006-03-17  1:18                 ` Mark Maule [this message]
2006-03-16 15:29       ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2006-03-14 21:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-14 23:55   ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2006-03-15  0:09     ` Mark Maule
2006-03-15  1:04       ` Jun'ichi Nomura

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