Re: [PATCH 07/13] pci: Provide sensible irq vector alloc/free routines

[Alexander Gordeev]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 05:47:37AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > > + pci_enable_msi, pci_enable_msi_range, pci_enable_msi_exact, pci_disable_msi,
> > > + pci_msi_vec_count, pci_enable_msix_range, pci_enable_msix_exact,
> > > + pci_disable_msix, pci_msix_vec_count
> > 
> > Description of these functions can be removed when all drivers migrated
> > to the new API. Also implementation descriptions + examples would still
> > be needed AFAICT.
> 
> I diagreed - if we deprecated functions the only thing that should
> be mentioned is a "don't use these". 

I will try to paraphrase myself. The new API deprecates pci_enable_msi*_range
functions, but I am not that sure about others. Certainly, pci_msi*_vec_count
and pci_enable_msi*_exact could have (and AFAIR do have) uses that can not be
covered by automatic initialization of pci_alloc_irq_vectors().