Re: [PATCH 08/42] introduce nr_irqs

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> and at this point it is equal NR_IRQS
>>>
>>> This patch is ok, but this approach is fundamentally broken.
>>> Only 19 architectures use GENERIC_HARDIRQS
>>>
>>> The only required interface is interrupt.h not irq.h
>>>
>>> So you may not replace NR_IRQS with nr_irqs in anything other
>>> then genirq code and some architecture code.
>>>
>>> Doing so will break the build on several architectures.
>>
>> some platforms will not use include/linux/irq.h and kernel/irq/handle.c ?
>>
>
> Also, what's the point, if it's just a renaming?

that is the start point.
nr_irqs is variable, and will be probed later. and use that number to
init dyn_alloc.

YH
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