Re: [PATCH RFC 01/15] drivers/base: Introduce platform_msi_ops

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:33:53PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> From: Megha Dey <megha.dey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is a preparatory patch to introduce Interrupt Message Store (IMS).
> 
> Until now, platform-msi.c provided a generic way to handle non-PCI MSI
> interrupts. Platform-msi uses its parent chip's mask/unmask routines
> and only provides a way to write the message in the generating device.
> 
> Newly creeping non-PCI complaint MSI-like interrupts (Intel's IMS for
> instance) might need to provide a device specific mask and unmask callback
> as well, apart from the write function.
> 
> Hence, introduce a new structure platform_msi_ops, which would provide
> device specific write function as well as other device specific callbacks
> (mask/unmask).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Megha Dey <megha.dey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As this is not following the Intel-specific rules for sending me new
code, I am just deleting it all from my inbox.

Please follow the rules you all have been given, they are specific and
there for a reason.  And in looking at this code, those rules are not
going away any time soon.

greg k-h