linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipr: use pci_irq_allocate

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Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:44:40 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     hans.verkuil@...co.com, brking@...ibm.com,
        haver@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ching2048@...ca.com.tw, axboe@...com,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipr: use pci_irq_allocate_vectors

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> writes:

Christoph> Switch the ipr driver to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors.  We need
Christoph> to two calls to pci_alloc_irq_vectors as ipr only supports
Christoph> multiple MSI-X vectors, but not multiple MSI vectors.

Christoph> Otherwise this cleans up a lot of cruft and allows to use a
Christoph> common request_irq loop for irq types, which happens to only
Christoph> iterate over a single line in the non MSI-X case.

Brian, Gabriel: Please test and review. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering