Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] platform-msi: Add platform check for subdevice irq domain

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Thu Dec 10 2020 - 14:17:03 EST


On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 12:57 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> What is the point of a function called probably_on_bare_metal()?
> *Probably*? The caller can't really do anything with the fact that
> we're not 100% sure this gives the correct answer. Just call it
> "on_bare_metal()" or something and accept the fact that it might be
> wrong sometimes.

Acknowledging that it's a heuristic is OK, but we should certainly be
clear about whether it has false positives, false negatives, or both.

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