Re: [PATCH 2/4] irq: allocate irq_desc_ptrs array based on nr_irqs

From: Mike Travis
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 18:04:18 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> +++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/kernel/irq/internals.h
>> @@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ extern int __irq_set_trigger(struct irq_
>> extern struct lock_class_key irq_desc_lock_class;
>> extern void init_kstat_irqs(struct irq_desc *desc, int cpu, int nr);
>> extern spinlock_t sparse_irq_lock;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
>> +extern struct irq_desc **irq_desc_ptrs;
>> +#else
>> extern struct irq_desc *irq_desc_ptrs[NR_IRQS];
>> +#endif
>
> why the #ifdef? irq_desc_ptrs is only defined and used by sparseirq.
>
> Ingo

Hmm, good point. I just modified as it was.

Should it only be:

#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
extern struct irq_desc **irq_desc_ptrs;
#endif

Or do we normally declare something even though it won't be defined anywhere?

Thanks,
Mike
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