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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] add pci_{request,free}_irq take #2
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:59:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004025925.GA28596@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4522E618.2070004@garzik.org>

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:37:12PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> >My bad, I've mixed your proposal and Matthew's, isn't this just a
> >matter of:
> >s/ARCH_VALIDATE_PCI_IRQ/ARCH_VALIDATE_IRQ/ ?
> >
> >I'll look if there's some non-PCI code that might check the irq's value
> >and thus might benefit from this.
> 
> The irq value comes from the PCI subsystem...  The PCI subsystem should 
> validate it.

That's not true.  The value in the pci_dev->irq field has been changed
by the architecture.  See, for example, pci_read_irq_line() in
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c.  It's a Linux IRQ number, not a PCI IRQ
number.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-03 22:07 [RFC PATCH] add pci_{request,free}_irq take #2 Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH] move aic7xxx to pci_request_irq Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:14 ` [RFC PATCH] add pci_{request,free}_irq take #2 Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 22:29   ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:37     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04  2:59       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-10-03 22:19 ` [RFC PATCH] move aic79xx to pci_request_irq Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:22 ` [RFC PATCH] move tg3 " Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:37   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 22:41     ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-04  5:38       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04  6:27         ` David Miller
2006-10-04  9:09           ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:23 ` [RFC PATCH] move e1000 " Frederik Deweerdt
2006-10-03 22:36   ` Jeff Garzik

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