linux-kernel - Re: provide pci_request_irq / pci_free

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Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:45:15 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: provide pci_request_irq / pci_free_irq helpers

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 09:06:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> PCI drivers that support multiple MSI or MSI-X vectors currently have a
> lot of boileplate code to generate names for each vector (or simply use
> the same name for all of them, which isn't nice either).  This series
> adds new helpers that allocate and free a name based on a format string
> passed to the request_irq wrapper.
> 
> They also hide the [pci_dev,vector] to Linux irq number translation,
> in fact the example NVMe driver conversion now never sees the Linux irq
> number.  That might be useful to isolate PCI drivers from our IRQ numbers,
> although to have a full abstraction we'd need similar wrappers for
> {enable,disable,synchronize}_irq as well.

Applied with reviewed-by from Thomas and Keith to pci/irq for v4.12,
thanks!