From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757769Ab0JEHrt (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:47:49 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:44315 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757407Ab0JEHrs (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:47:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:25:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Grant Likely cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jon Loeliger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Globally s/struct irq_host/struct irq_domain/ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20101004165212.GC13749@angua.secretlab.ca> <1286233776.2463.329.camel@pasglop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463795968-79811929-1286263567=:2556" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463795968-79811929-1286263567=:2556 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 10:52 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:03:57PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > >> > > >> > Just rename the irq_host structure as irq_domain to lessen the > >> > confusion around the word "host".  Updated a few comments and > >> > error messages to use "irq_domain" when refering to the structure. > >> > > >> > Suggested by Ben Herrenschmidt on the device-tree mailing list. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger > >> > --- > >> > > >> > Grant requested one giant patch simply renaming the structure. > >> > >> Thanks Jon, > >> > >> However, considering that tglx has already embarked on his Grand IRQ > >> Subsystem Cleanup, I suspect that this will end up just getting in the > >> way unless he picks it up into his queue.  It may even by that the > >> need for irq_host will disappear once Thomas is finished by merging it > >> into the core code.  I'd like to sit tight on this until the details > >> of what powerpc virqs can be worked out with Ben and Thomas. > > > > I doubt the need for irq_host will disappear. However I don't see that > > going into the core under that name, so I think the rename is a very > > valid thing to do now. We just need to sync the patches to avoid pure > > mechanical clash. > > > > Thomas initial series doesn't yet generalize the virq layer and that > > will take a bit longer, so I'm happy to see Jon stuff go upstream first. > > Alright, should tglx pick up this patch, or do you want to carry it in > the powerpc tree? Should go through powerpc. tglx ---1463795968-79811929-1286263567=:2556--