To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>, "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, shaohua.li@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (-mm) drivers/pci/msi: explicit declaration of msi_register
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	<20060316232837.GA12408@suse.de>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:37:22 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20060316232837.GA12408@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:28:37 -0800")
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    Greg> As msi.c today is pretty platform-specific as is, I don't
    Greg> have a problem with moving the ia64 stuff also into that
    Greg> directory.  Especially as it will help solve issues like
    Greg> this a lot better.

I think we really want to make drivers/pci/msi.c less
platform-specific.  Both powerpc and sparc64 are starting to pay
attention to MSI, so we should really be trying to move things in the
direction of a clean separation of generic MSI handling and
Intel-specific bits.

 - R.
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