linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] pci: provide sensible irq vector alloc/free routines

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Message-ID: <20160503213756.GA17170@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 3 May 2016 16:37:56 -0500
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] pci: provide sensible irq vector alloc/free routines

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 11:19:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> I've implemented your suggestion and I'm getting ready to send out
> a new version.  One thing that came to mind is:  do you prefer this
> code in irq.c or would you rather have it in msi.c?  While it
> also has a legacy irq fallback most of it tied pretty closely to
> the msi.c code, so I wonder if we should group them together.

Good question.  There isn't much in irq.c, and the interesting bits
are the MSI-related things, so maybe msi.c would make more sense.

Bjorn