On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:41 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/