[PATCH 1/2] irqdomain: add support for creating a continous mapping

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Fri Feb 21 19:04:40 EST 2014


On 02/20/2014 10:06 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 21:53 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> A MSI device may have multiple interrupts. That means that the
>> interrupts numbers should be continuos so that pdev->irq refers to the
>> first interrupt, pdev->irq + 1 to the second and so on.
>> This patch adds support for continuous allocation of virqs for a range
>> of hwirqs. The function is based on irq_create_mapping() but due to the
>> number argument there is very little in common now.
> 
> Would it make sense to turn irq_create_mapping() into a call to
> irq_create_mapping_block() with num = 1?

There are few things different and I didn't like it. Now I that I look
at it again I've found a bug the way irq_find_mapping() is called.
Let me redo it with your suggestion and we will see if it makes sense.

> -Scott
> 
> 
Sebastian


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