From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: genirq handle helper
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:49:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060531054927.GA18703@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149046728.766.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Hi Ingo, Thomas !
>
> This simple pach makes the transition easier. By making
> generic_handle_irq() call the old __do_IRQ if no new-style handler
> exist for a given irq, the transition from old style to new style is
> made easier for me. That is, I can have some PICs use the new handler
> mecanism while old ones still get __do_IRQ without having the common
> powerpc code caring about the type of PIC (it just does
> generic_handle_irq()).
>
> Might be useful to others as well, at least until everybody is ported
> over.
yeah, good idea - this will also make the MSI fix simpler.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Andrew, if you add Ben's patch, you can drop the
arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c bits of genirq-msi-fixes.patch. [if they stay
they wont hurt, they'll only be redundant.]
Ingo
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