Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:46:06 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/77] Re-design MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 09:48:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > There is one major flaw in min-max approach - the generic MSI layer
> > will have to take decisions on exact number of MSIs to request, not
> > device drivers.
> [...
> 
> No, the min-max functions should be implemented using the same loop that
> drivers are expected to use now.

Wheee... earlier in the thread I thought you guys were referring to
yourselves in the third person and was getting a bit worried. :)

-- 
tejun
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