linux-kernel - RE: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:01:05 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Thomas Meyer" <thomas@...3r.de>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	<linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Len Brown" <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

> What I'm proposing we do is move the irq allocation code out of
> pci_enable_device and the irq freeing code out of pci_disable_device
> in the future.

Sounds rational ... in a world that wasn't dominated by PCI it would
seem to be the logical approach (since the irq code would have much
more utility independent of the PCI code).

> Tony, Len before we merge any fixes for 2.6.21-rcX I'd like to at
> least get an ack on the long term direction.

Long-term-direction-acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

-Tony
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