On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 21:16 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > And I really do not see a point to have a truly random 64bit number > space for interrupts. Especially the dynamically allocated interrupts > (MSI & co) do not care about the number space at all. They care about > getting a unique number, nothing else. Actually, some implementations care about the actual number... but then, at least on powerpc, those are hidden behind the virq translation so we really don't care :-) (IE. Some PCI host bridges give meaning to the bits of the number, while x86 tends to use the address for that). Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html