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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at) instead
 
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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at) instead of open-coding an IRQ allocator. | 
 
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:05:30 -0700 | 
 
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On 10/25/2010 04:03 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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> What?  Why?  How?  Surely if we're asking the irq subsystem to allocate
> us an irq, it will return a fresh never-before-used (and certainly not
> shared) irq?  Shared irqs only make sense if multiple devices are
> actually sharing, say, a wire on the board.
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> Or am I missing something?
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I think the number is not necessarily "never before used", but rather
"not currently used".
        -hpa
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- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at)	instead of open-coding an IRQ allocator., Jeremy Fitzhardinge
 
 
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