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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:34:11 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/07] dyn_array/nr_irqs/sparse_irq support v10 - fix
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>       fix the 32bit with bigsmp
>>       fix 64 bit with irq migration
>>       ordering functions in io_apic_xx.c
>>
>>
>> to do:
>>     merge io_apic_xx.c
>
> applied to tip/irq/sparseirq - thanks Yinghai, great work!
>
> What do you think about Eric's abstraction suggestion, that irq_desc's
> structure should be hidden from all but kernel/irq/* code. I think
> that's a sane suggestion. We do it in mm/slab.c too: no external code
> knows the structure of 'struct kmem_cache'.

current arch code use irq_desc directly..., if need to irq_desc to
them, need to provide set_irq(..., ...)

YH