Re: [PATCH 07/13] pci: Provide sensible irq vector alloc/free routines

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:43:41PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:

quoted

I diagreed - if we deprecated functions the only thing that should
be mentioned is a "don't use these". 

I will try to paraphrase myself. The new API deprecates pci_enable_msi*_range
functions, but I am not that sure about others. Certainly, pci_msi*_vec_count
and pci_enable_msi*_exact could have (and AFAIR do have) uses that can not be
covered by automatic initialization of pci_alloc_irq_vectors().

pci_enable_msi*_exact is the equivalent of pci_enable_msi*_range
with minvecs == maxvecs and treating any return value >= 0 as 0.

I've updated the documentation so that the old usage examples are kept
around, but now use pci_alloc_irq_vectors.  I've also added a more detaild
blurb on pci_msi*_vec_count - I think there is no need for them, but
if I'm proven wrong we'll have to add a pci_irq_vector_count that handles
all interrupt types later.