Some chip implementations need to access certain status flags. With sparse irqs that requires a lookup of the irq descriptor. Add a state field which contains such flags. Name it in a way which will make coders happy to access it with the proper accessor functions. And it's easy to grep for. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/irq.h | 3 +++ include/linux/irqdesc.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6-tip/include/linux/irq.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/include/linux/irq.h +++ linux-2.6-tip/include/linux/irq.h @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ struct msi_desc; * struct irq_data - per irq and irq chip data passed down to chip functions * @irq: interrupt number * @node: node index useful for balancing + * @state_use_accessor: status information for irq chip functions. + * Use accessor functions to deal with it * @chip: low level interrupt hardware access * @handler_data: per-IRQ data for the irq_chip methods * @chip_data: platform-specific per-chip private data for the chip @@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ struct msi_desc; struct irq_data { unsigned int irq; unsigned int node; + unsigned int state_use_accessors; struct irq_chip *chip; void *handler_data; void *chip_data; Index: linux-2.6-tip/include/linux/irqdesc.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/include/linux/irqdesc.h +++ linux-2.6-tip/include/linux/irqdesc.h @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct irq_desc { struct { unsigned int irq; unsigned int node; + unsigned int pad_do_not_even_think_about_it; struct irq_chip *chip; void *handler_data; void *chip_data; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/