[PATCH 6/9] MPIC MSI allocator

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Dec 15 06:44:25 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 15:46 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>> if get_property("msi_available")
> >>> 	mpic_msi_reserve_dt_irqs()
> >>
> >> available-msi is a better name now that I think of it, or better  
> >> even:
> >> "msi-ranges"
> >
> > "msi-ranges" is ambiguous, are the ranges available or reserved?
> >
> > How about "msi-available-ranges" :D
> 
> The property describes vectors that are not (yet) in use by
> the hardware; so let's do "available-vectors"?

If we are going to be pedantic, it should be msi-available-sources :-)

Ben.




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