linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] char: xillybus: Replace deprecated MSI API

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Message-ID: <2025072004-karaoke-stilt-ef20@gregkh>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:33:47 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Salah Triki <salah.triki@...il.com>
Cc: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] char: xillybus: Replace deprecated MSI API

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 05:51:36AM +0100, Salah Triki wrote:
> Replace deprecated pci_enable_msi() with pci_alloc_irq_vectors().

This says what you are doing, but not _WHY_ you are doing it.

If this was a simple search/replace, why would it not have been done
already?  Are you _SURE_ this is correct, and if so, why?  You need to
prove it here...

thanks,

greg k-h