Re: [question] NR_IRQS in genirq

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Nov 24 2010 - 08:50:55 EST


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:46:06PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:

> My hardware environment is ARM. Each machine description can specify
> nr_irqs. In my implementation of PXA, NR_IRQS is fixed for SoC
> internal IRQs. And there's some additional board IRQs, we arrange them
> between NR_IRQS and nr_irqs. So nr_irqs will be larger than NR_IRQS if
> board IRQs exists.

Most ARM platforms have come up with some Kconfig gunk to allow boards
to extend this for off-SoC GPIOs. It'd be really nice to get rid of
NR_IRQS and stop having to worry about this at all :(
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