Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.19-rc5] arch-neutral GPIO calls

From: Bill Gatliff
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 15:29:26 EST


David Brownell wrote:


Part of this is just that NR_IRQs is a global constant, and it's not
possible to allocate new IRQ banks after a kernel is built.


... because irq_desc is an array, and not a list of some kind.

We have a Virtual File System layer, I guess we need a Virtual Interrupt System layer too? :)

/me shudders


b.g.

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