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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch 46/47] powerpc: Use new irq allocator
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 23:18 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (powerpc-use-new-allocator.patch)
> > Use the new functions and free the descriptor when the virq is
> > destroyed.
> 
> Looks ok as a first pass, but we should go further and replace the
> allocator we have in powerpc to use yours instead.
> 
> Then I should get rid of my big irq_map that maps virq to HW number &
> domain pointers and instead put those in the irq data. Any objection to
> me sticking some archdata there for that purpose ?

No, though if we can avoid another void pointer and have a sensible
data structure for it would be nice.
 
> That would make things much cleaner and in fact move one large step
> toward being able to make powerpc virq scheme generic, which seems to be
> a good idea from what I've heard :-)

Yep.

Thanks,

	tglx