[RFC/PATCH 14/16] MPIC MSI backend

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 00:02 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I don't have a clue why it is called virq.  But looking at the
> usage it must be a linux irq number as shown in /proc/interrupts and
> as such there need be no connection with hardware.

Indeed.

> I believe the ppc model is to allocate an interrupt source on their
> existing interrupt controller and use that instead of the normal x86
> case of having the MSI interrupt go transparently to the cpu.

Not quite, see my other reply.

> Both set_irq_type, and entries.vector take a linux irq number.
> Darn we should change that field name, it is misleading.

Yes ;-)

Ben.