Re: [PATCH 00/42] dyn_array/nr_irqs/sparse_irq support v5

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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