Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:20:59 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r234723 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 amd64/include i386/i386 i386/include pc98/pc98 sparc64/include sparc64/sparc64 x86/x86 Message-ID: <201204271020.59067.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-FndASyvcdWUG%2BYpmxOh7LVFHbUg1_WrCOEk9=RVekReckBQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201204262024.q3QKOPA6067287@svn.freebsd.org> <201204270740.43912.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJ-FndASyvcdWUG%2BYpmxOh7LVFHbUg1_WrCOEk9=RVekReckBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, April 27, 2012 9:55:41 am Attilio Rao wrote: > 2012/4/27, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>: > > On Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:24:25 pm Attilio Rao wrote: > >> Author: attilio > >> Date: Thu Apr 26 20:24:25 2012 > >> New Revision: 234723 > >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/234723 > >> > >> Log: > >> Clean up the intr* MD KPI from the SMP dependency, removing a cause of > >> discrepancy between modules and kernel, but deal with SMP differences > >> within the functions themselves. > >> > >> As an added bonus this also helps in terms of code readability. > > > > Hmm, this should not have affected anything with modules as no modules > > should have ever called this. Also, making intr_bind() available for UP > > kernels on x86 is largely pointless. It's only caller is already > > conditional > > in sys/x86/x86/nexus.c: > > It doesn't mean that there couldn't be an user in the future of this > KPI in terms of thirdy part modules. > These functions are part of the public KPI and we speak a lot about > making our KPI as less as dependent by compiling options so I don't > really see why you are not happy about this. > > If the function (intr_bind() included) is part of the public KPI it > can be called by thirdy part modules too. No! intr_bind() is _NOT_ part of the public KPI. The public KPI is bus_intr_bind() which accepts a struct resource, which is the approved handle for interrupt resources in drivers and other modules. -- John Baldwin
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