[PATCH 0/2] OMAP: Update nr_irqs field in machine descriptors

Cousson, Benoit b-cousson at ti.com
Thu Aug 25 07:49:33 EDT 2011


Hi Venkat,

On 8/24/2011 9:46 PM, S, Venkatraman wrote:
> As part of an effort to get single ARM kernel binary [1],
> multiple  definitions of NR_IRQS under various platforms
> have to be reconciled and abstracted away from common code.
>
> This patch series takes the small step of populating the
> machine descriptors with the pre-existing nr_irqs field.
> Eventually, the common irq handler code will only look at this
> field and not the compile time constant.

Not related to this patch, but still on that topic. The current NR_IRQS 
depends as well on board stuff, like for example : the Phoenix 
IRQs:TWL6030_IRQ_BASE, TWL6040_CODEC_IRQ_BASE.
Is there a plan to get rid of this static defines?

Thanks,
Benoit



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