On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 13:21 +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > PowerPC is the only architecture that makes use of hook > arch_msi_check_device() and does perform some checks to > figure out if MSI/MSI-X could be enabled for a device. > However, there are no reasons why those checks could not > be done within arch_setup_msi_irqs() hook. > > Moving MSI checks into arch_setup_msi_irqs() makes code > more readable and allows getting rid of unnecessary hook > arch_msi_check_device().
The intention was that this hook allowed a platform to reject the request early, ie. before all the setup had been done. But if no one except us is using it then fine, get rid of it. Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
