linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] powerpc: make irq_{alloc, free}

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Date:	Thu, 05 May 2011 10:39:55 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	hpa@...or.com, Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] powerpc: make irq_{alloc, free}_virt private and
 remove count argument

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:59 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> Heh, I wondered about that, but there hasn't been any users for at
> least 5 years (as evidenced by commit e12514650b, "Fix loop logic in
> irq_alloc_virt()") so it was looking pretty dead, and it made the
> patch to switch to using irq_alloc_desc*() quite a bit simpler if it
> was removed.  :-)
> 
> I'm not particularly attached to this patch, so I can drop it from the
> series. 

Well, Willy recently added support for the MSI block allocation so ...

Cheers,
Ben.


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