Re: [patch 12/15] PNPACPI: ignore _PRS interrupt numbers larger thanPNP_IRQ_NR

[Rene Herman]

On 31-05-08 00:49, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> ACPI Extended Interrupt Descriptors can encode 32-bit interrupt
> numbers, so an interrupt number may exceed the size of the bitmap
> we use to track possible IRQ settings.
>
> To avoid corrupting memory, complain and ignore too-large interrupt
> numbers.
>
> There's similar code in pnpacpi_parse_irq_option(), but I didn't
> change that because the small IRQ descriptor can only encode
> IRQs 0-15, which do not exceed bitmap size.
>
> In the future, we could handle IRQ numbers greater than PNP_IRQ_NR
> by replacing the bitmap with a table or list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx>

Rene.
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