linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/4] XEN: Interrupt cleanups

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Date:	Mon, 7 Feb 2011 22:33:50 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] XEN: Interrupt cleanups

Jeremy,

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 12:08 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > the following series converts the interrupt chips of XEN to the new
> > chip functions and the last patches replace the xen private resume
> > hackery.
> >
> > The first two patches have no dependencies.
> >
> > The last two need the modification to the generic interrupt layer. I
> > could either carry them through the genirq tree with your
> > acked-tested-whatever-by or I provide you a branch to pull that change
> > from. I need the genirq change local as it conflicts with other patches
> > in the pipeline. Either way works fine.
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thanks very much for looking at this.  IanC also has some patches to
> clean up the Xen interrupt stuff to get rid of the local hacks, so I'll
> let him work out how to reconcile the two sets of work (ah, I see he's
> already replied).
> 
> [Read patches]
> 
> It doesn't look like there's any functional overlap at all, since his
> patches are concerned with using the core irq allocator rather than a
> private one, so that's OK.
> 
> Anyway, I'll let Ian do the ack.

Ok. The irq_chip conversion is mostly mechanical, but I'm really
concerned about that IRQ_SUSPENDED hackery. It'd be nice if you
resp. Ian could give that a test ride. That would allow me to cleanup
stuff in the core code.

Thanks,

	tglx
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