Re: [PATCH 0/25] Decouple IRQ issues (MSI, i386, x86_64, ia64)

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:24:35PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> The primary aim of this patch is to remove maintenances problems caused
> by the irq infrastructure.  The two big issues I address are an
> artificially small cap on the number of irqs, and that MSI assumes
> vector == irq.  My primary focus is on x86_64 but I have touched
> other architectures where necessary to keep them from breaking.
> 
The MSI portions of this patchset is similar to the MSI cleanup
I was working on. I'll drop my patchkit and instead comment on
the relevant patches in this kit.

I got a couple of minor compile errors on i386 (kernel/io_apic.c).
I fixed them up by hand and the resulting kernel booted and
worked with MSI in the limited testing I've done so far.

thanks,
Rajesh
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