RE: [PATCH]2.6.3-rc2 MSI Support for IA64

[Nguyen, Tom L]

Friday, Feb. 20, 2004 10:58 AM, Mika Penttilä wrote:

>ia64 already has a function ia64_alloc_vector(void) in 
>arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64, why the doubling?

+#ifndef CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR
 int
 ia64_alloc_vector (void)
 {
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@
 		panic("ia64_alloc_vector: out of interrupt vectors!");
 	return next_vector++;
 }
+#endif

#ifndef CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR is added in arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c
as above to avoid the double definement of ia64_alloc_vector(void).
Setting CONFIG_PCI_USE_VECTOR to 'Y' by enabling MSI support will
use function ia64_alloc_vector(void) defined in drivers/pci/msi.c.
The main reason behind it is to keep track of the number of vectors
already assigned during the runtime. Keeping track of already assigned
vectors is required in MSI implementation.

Thanks,
Long 

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