Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: drop HARDIRQ_BITS definition from hardirq.h

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 16:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> linux/hardirq.h contains a fallback for HARDIRQ_BITS to 10
> if it's not defined, so it is pointless to define a default
> of 8 in asm/hardirq.h. There does not seem to be a good
> reason why an architecture would want to limit the number
> of hardirqs this way.
>
> Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âinclude/asm-generic/hardirq.h | Â 13 -------------
> Â1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> On Sunday 14 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> is there any downsides to using a "too large" value ? Âi.e. if my
>> system has less than 256, does it make any difference at all if it's
>> set to 10 ?
>
> None that I know of. I'm queuing this patch in my asm-generic tree now,
> unless Steven or someone else has a better idea.

based on Steven's comments, this patch makes sense to me
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
-mike
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