[RFC PATCH 1/3] [ARM] allow NR_IRQS to be larger than 256

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Feb 4 14:27:39 EST 2010


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:18:52AM -0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> > <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:09:22AM -0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> >>> commit fc14e7ca387688ca63eafa16d4aa3012898d096d
> >>> Author: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com>
> >>> Date:   Mon Dec 28 11:05:55 2009 +0800
> >>>
> >>>     [ARM] allow NR_IRQS to be larger than 256
> >>
> >> Don't you mean 512 ?
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> 
> Maybe a subject of "allow .... to be in range of 256 to 512" will be better.

Which we already do - with 9 hard irq bits if NR_IRQS is larger than 256.



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