Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 02/11] pci: use weak functions for MSI arch-specific functions

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:53:16 +1000

On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 15:42 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Until now, the MSI architecture-specific functions could be overloaded
> using a fairly complex set of #define and compile-time
> conditionals. In order to prepare for the introduction of the msi_chip
> infrastructure, it is desirable to switch all those functions to use
> the 'weak' mechanism. This commit converts all the architectures that
> were overidding those MSI functions to use the new strategy.

The MSI code used to use weak functions, until we discovered they were
being miscompiled on some toolchains (11df1f0). I assume these days
we're confident they work correctly.

cheers