Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:01:42 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/42] dyn_array/nr_irqs/sparse_irq support v5 |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > Please check dyn_array support for x86 > v3: split changing to nr_irqs to small patches > fix checkpatch error > reorder the patch sequence to make dyn_array support go at first > so could use that with arrays other than NR_IRQS > v4: add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ with list to use condensed irq_desc array > so could use 32 init, and init more if needed. > x86 32bit: have CONFIG_HAVE_DYN_ARRAY > x86 64bit: have CONFIG_HAVE_DYN_ARRAY and CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ >
So I'm still clearly missing something about this... if we need sparse IRQs in the first place (which we do), what's the point of the dyn_array?
-hpa
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