* Stephen Warren wrote:

On 06/11/2012 11:07 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:

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* Stephen Warren wrote:

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On 06/11/2012 09:05 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:

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This commit adds support for message signaled interrupts to the
Tegra PCIe controller. Based on code by Krishna Kishore
[off-list ref].

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Why allocate pcie->msi separately; why not include the fields
directly into struct tegra_pcie_info *pcie?

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Second, and more importantly, this will keep the size of struct 
tegra_pcie_info smaller if PCI_MSI is not selected because there is
just one unused pointer instead of five unused fields.

Well, you can always ifdef out the structure fields too, right?

Not if you use the IS_ENABLED() macro. It's supposed to increase compile
coverage for a trade-off in memory usage because like in this case some
fields may be unused.

I find this very convenient because it prevents situations where build
errors don't show up until somebody uses the code in an unusual
configuration. For developers this makes it really easy because they don't
have to test every possible permutation of configuration options.

Thierry