Re: [PATCH RFC: linux-next 1/2] irq: Add CPU mask affinity hintcallback framework

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 12:48 -0700, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Thinking more about it, I wonder whether you have a cpu_mask in your
> > driver/device private data anyway. I bet you have :)
> 
> Well, at this point we don't, but nothing says we can't.

Somewhere you need to store that information in your driver, right ?

> > So it should be sufficient to set a pointer to that cpu_mask in
> > irq_desc and get rid of the callback completely.
> 
> So "register" would just assign the pointer, and "unregister" would make
> sure to NULL the mask pointer out.  I like it.  It'll sure clean things
> up too.

Yep, that'd be like the set_irq_chip() function. Just assign the
pointer under desc->lock.

Thanks,

	tglx
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