PERFORCE change 36551 for review

[John Baldwin]

On 22-Aug-2003 Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:54:14PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> > Going to the source: in acpi_parse_resources() we need to create
>> > a callback to MD code to tell it about polarity and mode. This
>> > means tweaking the ACPI_RSTYPE_IRQ or ACPI_RSTYPE_EXT_IRQ cases.
>> > Better would be to create bus methods for this (see for example
>> > acpi_res_set_irq()).
>> 
>> Yes.  For i386 definitely it would make sense to have a bus method
>> that bubbles back up to the nexus(4) and eventually calls the
>> MD interrupt code.  Maybe some kind of interrupt properties kobj
>> interface:
> 
> The impact of a seperate KOBJ interface is probably large. I can't
> think of a use of this object that's unrelated to the bus object.
> If we do have such an use, then it should probably be a seperate
> interface, otherwise I think we should just add new methods to the
> bus interface.
> 
> I first need to finish a couple of other things, but then I can
> spend some time on it. Don't wait for me :-)

My only concern is that I'm afraid this isn't a very MI interface,
but bus is probably an ok place for it for now.

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