[RFC PATCH 3/3] [ARM] Allow boards to specify the exact number of IRQs needed

Ben Dooks ben-linux at fluff.org
Fri Feb 5 03:30:50 EST 2010


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:12:37AM -0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> commit 988a6a2bd322d83eba42c05cb6cb77a74cba056b
> Author: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Feb 4 11:06:35 2010 -0800
> 
>     [ARM] Allow boards to specify the exact number of IRQs needed
> 
>     This will only take effect if SPARSE_IRQ is enabled, any board that
>     depends on this _only_ has to explicitly select SPARSE_IRQ.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com>

out of interest, what happens if the user wants to instantiate an irq
that is above the board's nr_irq setting?

-- 
Ben

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