linux-kernel - Re: [patch 33/47] pci: Cleanup the irq

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Message-ID: <20101011100849.072b9ba6@jbarnes-desktop>
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:08:49 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 33/47] pci: Cleanup the irq_desc mess in msi

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:17:18 -0000
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> Handing down irq_desc to msi just so that msi can access
> irq_desc.irq_data.msi_desc is a pretty stupid idea. The calling code
> can hand down a pointer to msi_desc so msi code does not need to know
> about the irq descriptor at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> ---

Looks like a good cleanup.

Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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