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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays.
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:01:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171828912.5644.170.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17iug9dv6.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
> Except for the what appears to be instability of the irq numbers on
> simpler configurations I don't have a problem with it.
I agree that's a bit annoying and I beleive it can be fixed. In
additionm I'd like to look into exposing the domain/HW number -> virq
mapping somewhere in sysfs maybe.
> Until we find a solution for the user space side of things we seem to
> need the unsigned int irq number for user space. Now I don't want
> people mapping back and forth which is why I don't intend to provide a
> reverse function.
Ok.
> But of course there will be a for_each_irq in the genirq layer so if
> people really want to they will be able to go from the linux irq to
> an irq_desc. But we don't have to export that generically (except
> possibly something for the isa irqs).
Ok.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-18 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-16 12:10 [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-16 15:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-02-16 15:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 15:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 22:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 21:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-19 0:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-27 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 0:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-28 7:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 8:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-28 13:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 12:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-28 13:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 13:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-01 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-16 19:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 19:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-16 19:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 19:52 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 20:59 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 1:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-17 4:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 9:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 6:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-18 20:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-17 9:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 3:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 8:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 4:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-18 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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