Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751125AbXBPMRE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:17:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751380AbXBPMRE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:17:04 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55038 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751125AbXBPMRD (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:17:03 -0500 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays. Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:16:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702161316.41237.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 16 > I expect the most it makes sense to aim for 2.6.22 are the genirq > changes so the internal arch code is passing struct irq_desc > everywhere internally. Are there any livetime issues with passing pointers around? e.g. what happens on APIC hotunplug etc.? We don't necessarily support that yet, but for a big interface change it should be probably kept in mind first. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/