Re: [PATCH 2/6] PCI MSI: Replace 'type' with 'is_msix'

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:27 -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> By changing from a 5-bit field to a 1-bit field, we free up some bits
> that can be used by a later patch.  Also rearrange the fields for better
> packing on 64-bit platforms (reducing the size of msi_desc from 72 bytes
> to 64 bytes).
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index dceea56..b3db438 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c

> @@ -393,7 +355,7 @@ static int msi_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  	if (!entry)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	entry->msi_attrib.type = PCI_CAP_ID_MSI;
> +	entry->msi_attrib.is_msix = 0;

This isn't strictly necessary given we kzalloc'ed the entry, but no
biggie.

Looks good otherwise.

cheers

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