On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> OMG, you really mean that:
>
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/irq_i8259.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ init_i8259a_irqs(void)
> outb(0xff, 0xA1); /* mask all of 8259A-2 */
>
> for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
> + irq_alloc_d
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>
> >> As I said before irq_reserve_irq() is a misnomer and a
> >> misconception. Of course this needs to be fixed as well.
> >>
> >> And you
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> As I said before irq_reserve_irq() is a misnomer and a
>> misconception. Of course this needs to be fixed as well.
>>
>> And you cannot just blindly change it because !SPARSE can use
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> As I said before irq_reserve_irq() is a misnomer and a
> misconception. Of course this needs to be fixed as well.
>
> And you cannot just blindly change it because !SPARSE can use the
> allocation. We are not creating stupid corner cases
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > There is a clear step by step approach to get this done proper:
> >
> > 1) Get rid of the existing misconception/misnomer of
> > irq_reserve_irqs().
> >
> > Make it explicit that this
On 2014/1/3 8:05, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> For ioapic hot-add support, it would be easy if we have continuous
> irq numbers for hot added ioapic controller.
>
> We can reserve irq range at first, and later allocate desc for those
> pre-reserved irqs when they are needed.
>
> The reasons for not allo
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> There is a clear step by step approach to get this done proper:
>
> 1) Get rid of the existing misconception/misnomer of
> irq_reserve_irqs().
>
> Make it explicit that this is dealing with legacy irq spaces. It's
> not that
Yinghai,
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> For ioapic hot-add support, it would be easy if we have continuous
> irq numbers for hot added ioapic controller.
I really don't care about easy. Easy to solve problems are for
wimps.
What you really want to say is, that ioapic hot-add support re
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