netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next 2/2] xen-netfront: split event channels feature support

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Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:26 +0100
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next 2/2] xen-netfront: split event
 channels feature support

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:28:25PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:41:49PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:39:01PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > +	info->rx_evtchn = info->tx_evtchn;
> > > > +	info->rx_irq = info->tx_irq = err;
> > > > +	dev_info(&info->xbdev->dev,
> > > > +		 "single event channel, evtchn = %d, irq = %d\n",
> > > > +		 info->tx_evtchn, info->tx_irq);
> > > 
> > > This message is pointless chatter as the information is available
> > > elsewhere.  Please remove.
> > > 
> > 
> > Do you mean /proc/interrupt by "elsewhere"? Information there doesn't
> > give you irq<->evtchn mapping info.
> 
> If you really want to, that should be implemented via an DebugFS entry that can
> be driven from drivers/xen/events.c. As the events.c is the generic code that sets
> up the Xen events, pirqs, ipis, <-> Linux IRQs.

I mainly focus on upstreaming all necessary features for a new Xen
network baseline, so I would rather not touch other files.

I will delete these dev_info, they don't seem to be critical anyway.


Wei.
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