Re: [PATCH] msi: set 'En' bit of MSI Mapping Capability

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 17:55:28 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:41:25 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It would be better to just add a stub implementation of
>> ht_enable_msi_mapping() for all the other architectures - avoid fancy cpp
>> tricks.
>
>
> And by this I really do mean going into each include/asm-*/pci.h and adding
>
>
> struct pci_dev; (if needed)
> ...
>
> static inline void ht_enable_msi_mapping(struct pci_dev *dev)
> {
> }
>
>
> no macros, no ifdef tricks, no include tricks. Just straight, clean, fully
> typechecked C.

Andrew thanks for the code style review. I goofed about recommending the
ARCH_HAVE_XXXX thing.

I'm going to concentrate on the content for the moment. I think we
are very close to a general solution to a very common problem with
MSI interrupts.

Eric
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