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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:27:04 -0500
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: change msi-x vector to 32bit
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 22:51 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I completely agree that irq number 99.9% of the time should be a completely
> > > abstract token.
> >
> > Sure, although one nice reason for doing the abstraction first is that
> > it stops people imposing fragile numbering schemes on irq ...
>
> On a lot of embedded devices IRQ numbers are not abstract and not
> fragile. I'm all for abstracting out interrupts nicely but it isn't just
> the legacy PC cases to consider - a lot of embedded is at least as
> defined, rigid and meaningfully numbered as ISA.
So for these, the abstraction transformation is the identity ... meaning
they behave as they always have.
James
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