From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] genericirq: make irq_chip related function to take desc
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:20:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B900809.7050406@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003042005000.2014@localhost.localdomain>
On 03/04/2010 11:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On 03/04/2010 06:31 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> The code which uses the chip functions needs to be changed:
>>>
>>> - desc->chip->fun(irq);
>>> + desc->chip->fun(desc);
>>>
>>> That's mostly in kernel/irq/* but there are some users in arch/*
>>> lowlevel irq handling code as well.
>>
>> that is our -v2 version.
>
> I know, but the difference is that it is done by a machine.
>
> I have been involved in more than one large scale overhaul projects in
> the kernel and most of the time I spent on those was to figure out the
> right way to do it to limit the risks.
sure.
>
> Automated conversion is the best thing you can do and if Julia can
> whip up that rules, I'm less worried about the wholesale switchover on
> a per function basis, than I'm scared about the fully manual approach
> you took.
ok, let wait for Julia to check it...
Thanks
Yinghai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 10:08 [PATCH 0/12] irq related: make function to take irq_desc pointer instead of irq Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 01/12] x86: fix out of order of gsi - full Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 02/12] x86: set nr_irqs_gsi only in probe_nr_irqs_gsi Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 03/12] x86: kill smpboot_hooks.h Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 04/12] x86: use vector_desc instead of vector_irq Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 05/12] genericirq: make irq_chip to have member with irq_desc pointer Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 06/12] genericirq: make irq_chip related function to take desc Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 14:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 18:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 19:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 19:20 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-03-05 7:47 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 4:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-21 11:03 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 13:11 ` [PATCH] irq: Start the transition of irq_chip methods taking a desc Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-21 14:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-21 18:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-22 0:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-21 13:49 ` [PATCH 06/12] genericirq: make irq_chip related function to take desc Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-21 14:19 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 16:29 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 11:08 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 11:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-21 19:16 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 19:35 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-21 19:36 ` Julia Lawall
2010-03-22 0:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-04 19:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 07/12] genericirq: make hpet_msi/ht/msi/dmar_msi " Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 08/12] x86: make irq_chip to use desc_mask instead of mask Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 15:10 ` [PATCH 08/12] x86: make irq_chip to use desc_mask instead of maskn Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 09/12] x86: irq_chip to use desc_mask instead of mask part 2 Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 10/12] genericirq: add set_irq_desc_chip/data Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 11/12] x86/iommu/dmar: update iommu/inter_remapping to use desc Yinghai Lu
2010-03-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 12/12] x86: remove arch_probe_nr_irqs Yinghai Lu
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