Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:41:18 -0800
From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
To: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Cc: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       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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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:19:34PM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
> If there's objectins to having struct msi_ops declared in pci.h, then I guess
> we need to come up with another solution.

There are other transaction based interrupt subsystems that are typically
arch specific (e.g. GSC device interrupts on PA-RISC). So far, MSI is the
only generic one and that is clearly part of the PCI spec. 

grant
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