linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] genirq/msi: add wrapper msi allocation API and export msi functions

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:06:42 +0100
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
 gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: maz@...nel.org, git@....com, harpreet.anand@....com,
 pieter.jansen-van-vuuren@....com, nikhil.agarwal@....com,
 michal.simek@....com, abhijit.gangurde@....com, srivatsa@...il.mit.edu,
 Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] genirq/msi: add wrapper msi allocation API and
 export msi functions

On Tue, Mar 05 2024 at 10:00, Nipun Gupta wrote:

  Subject: genirq/msi: Add MSI allocation helper and export MSI functions

> MSI functions can be for allocation and free can be directly
> used by the device drivers without any wrapper provided by
> bus drivers. So export these MSI functions.

s/can be for/for/ otherwise the sentence dos not make sense.

> Also, add a wrapper API to allocate MSIs providing only the
> number of IRQ's rather than range for simpler driver usage.

s/IRQ's/interrupts/ 

> Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>

Other than that:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Alex, feel free to pick this up with the nitpicks resolved and route it
through your tree together with the VFIO driver.

Thanks,

        tglx