[question] NR_IRQS in genirq

[broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:54:38PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:46:06PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:

> > 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 :(

> I mean with sparse_irq you can set NR_IRQS insanely high w/o
> increasing memory consumption. That's the whole point.

Yeah, I was just pointing out common practice on ARM (sparse IRQ isn't
widely enough deployed there :/ ).

Would it be worth having sparse_irq change the default NR_IRQS to be
something suitably large - there doesn't seem any point in having
platforms using it each pick their own particular definition of insanely
high?  I'll take a look and cook up a patch unless I can spot anything
silly about that by myself.