Re: [PATCH] pci: change msi-x vector to 32bit

[Alan Cox]

> > I completely agree that irq number 99.9% of the time should be a completely
> > abstract token.
> 
> Sure, although one nice reason for doing the abstraction first is that
> it stops people imposing fragile numbering schemes on irq ...

On a lot of embedded devices IRQ numbers are not abstract and not
fragile. I'm all for abstracting out interrupts nicely but it isn't just
the legacy PC cases to consider - a lot of embedded is at least as
defined, rigid and meaningfully numbered as ISA.

Alan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/