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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] genericirq: change ack/mask in irq_chip to take irq_desc in addition to irq
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:51:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7D9A39.4070308@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7D7552.2010001@zytor.com>

On 02/18/2010 09:13 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/18/2010 09:04 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> May I ask why these methods and why pass both irq and desc instead of
>> just desc?
>>
>> I think in the long run passing both irq and desc through several
>> functions may incur some maintenance cost that it would be nice not to
>> pay (register pressure and increased chance of typos).
>>
> 
> Indeed; if the IRQ number is needed the function should just get it from
> desc->irq.


ok, change unsigned int irq to struct irq_desc *desc in irq_chip member...

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-13  2:49 [PATCH 0/8] tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 1/8] irq: remove not need bootmem code Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 2/8] radix: move radix init early Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 3/8] sparseirq: change irq_desc_ptrs to static Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 4/8] sparseirq: use radix_tree instead of ptrs array Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86: remove arch_probe_nr_irqs Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 6/8] use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86: use num_processors for possible cpus Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  2:49 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86: make 32bit apic flat to physflat switch like 64bit Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13  3:44 ` [PATCH 0/8] tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13  3:49   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-13  4:17     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 22:12       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-02-13 22:26         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13  9:54   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 11:39     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 12:04     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 22:40       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-13 23:14         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 23:59           ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-14  0:30             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-14  0:49               ` Yinghai Lu
     [not found]               ` <4B7CA9A1.3020806@kernel.org>
2010-02-18  2:49                 ` [PATCH 0/3] radix tree spareirq addon cleanup Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18  2:50                 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: use vector_desc instead of vector_irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18 17:22                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23  6:39                     ` [PATCH -v3 1/2] " Yinghai Lu
2010-02-23  6:44                       ` [PATCH -v2 2/2] genericirq: change ack/mask in irq_chip to take irq_desc instead of irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 21:36                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-24 22:07                           ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-25  0:22                             ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-03-02 14:58                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-03  8:49                             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-03 10:26                               ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]                       ` <4B84F013.9040708@kernel.org>
2010-02-24  9:26                         ` [PATCH -v3 " Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24  9:27                       ` [PATCH -v4 1/2] x86: use vector_desc instead of vector_irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18  2:50                 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] genericirq: change ack/mask in irq_chip to take irq_desc in addition to irq Yinghai Lu
2010-02-18 17:04                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-18 17:13                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-18 19:51                       ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-02-18  2:49               ` [PATCH 1/3] xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions Yinghai Lu
2010-02-19  1:36                 ` [tip:x86/irq] " tip-bot for Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 12:26     ` [PATCH 0/8] tip related: radix tree for spareseirq and logical flat clean up Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 22:36       ` Yinghai Lu

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