On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:37:13 +0200,
Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Carsten Otte wrote:
> > This patch removes the include of "irq.h" in kvm_main.c, s390 does not
> > have irqs. For that, kvm_cpu_has_interrupt becomes an architecutre
> > specific function which can check for external or I/O interrupts on s390
> > and for irqs on x86 and others. In order to clarify wording, the
> > function defined by irq.h has been renamed to kvm_cpu_has_irq.
> >   
> 
> I generally understand "irq" to mean the interrupt request line, and 
> "interrupt" to mean a vectored interrupt (post interrupt controller).  
> In those terms the naming in correct.  However I'm not at all certain 
> this naming convention is generally accepted.

Well, at least IO-Interrupts on s390 don't really fit this model from my
point of view. (In fact, we can even get IO-Interrupts that are not
associated with any (channel) device at all).

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