Re: [GIT pull] irq/core for v5.17-rc1

[Saeed Mahameed]

On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 09:01 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:13 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git irq-
> > core-2022-01-13
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> I got a conflict in the mlx driver. It looked trivial, but just to
> make sure I compared against the resolution in linux-next.
> 
> My conflict resolution is different, though, and I think mine is the
> correct one (although maybe they end up both being fine).
> 
> But I'm just about to leave for travel, and maybe I'm wrong, so I
> just
> wanted to people to verify...

Both will end up the same since mask is NULL.
Bon Voyage!

> 
> It's
> 
>    drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
> 
> and in particular the 'err_xa' release part of mlx5_irq_alloc() - I
> made it use irq_update_affinity_hint() to match the irq_release()
> paths.
> 

Agreed, code symmetry is an important standard in mlx5 ! Thanks!.