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SubjectRe: provide pci_request_irq / pci_free_irq helpers
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 09:06:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> PCI drivers that support multiple MSI or MSI-X vectors currently have a
> lot of boileplate code to generate names for each vector (or simply use
> the same name for all of them, which isn't nice either). This series
> adds new helpers that allocate and free a name based on a format string
> passed to the request_irq wrapper.
>
> They also hide the [pci_dev,vector] to Linux irq number translation,
> in fact the example NVMe driver conversion now never sees the Linux irq
> number. That might be useful to isolate PCI drivers from our IRQ numbers,
> although to have a full abstraction we'd need similar wrappers for
> {enable,disable,synchronize}_irq as well.

Applied with reviewed-by from Thomas and Keith to pci/irq for v4.12,
thanks!

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