Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:18:27 -0600
From: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
To: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, "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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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:41:08PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 03:49:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > Yes, that's fine.  But the core pci msi structures do not need to be
> > exported for the whole kernel to see, right?  That's my only point here.
> 
> Yes, got it. I agree.
> 

Ok, I'll move the SN stuff down into pci/drivers.  I think that's ok, and
still allow the separation we want.  Basicly there's [almost] generic
msi core code (msi.c) and platform dependent interrupt controllers
(msi-apic.c and soon msi-altix.c).

Mark
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