Re: [PATCH 2/6] powerpc: make irq_{alloc, free}_virt private andremove count argument

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed May 04 2011 - 20:45:23 EST


On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:59 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>
> Heh, I wondered about that, but there hasn't been any users for at
> least 5 years (as evidenced by commit e12514650b, "Fix loop logic in
> irq_alloc_virt()") so it was looking pretty dead, and it made the
> patch to switch to using irq_alloc_desc*() quite a bit simpler if it
> was removed. :-)
>
> I'm not particularly attached to this patch, so I can drop it from the
> series.

Well, Willy recently added support for the MSI block allocation so ...

Cheers,
Ben.


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