Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays. | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:24:45 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:41 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: > > > So I propose we remove all assumptions from the code that we actually > > have an array of irqs. That will allow for irq_desc to be dynamically > > allocated instead of statically allocated saving memory and reducing > > kernel complexity. > > hm. I'd suggest to do this without changing request_irq() - and then we > could avoid the 'massive, every driver affected' change, right?
if request_irq() changes we might as well make a variant that takes a PCI device struct rather than a number, for the 99% of PCI drivers that use that.. (and then msi and other stuff becomes simpler :)
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