Re: [PATCH 00/33] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v4

Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-06T20:43:47Z

"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:

>> My suggestion for a non-breaking path:
>> - Kill NR_IRQS in then generic code.
>> With Alan's serial patch and my kstat patch it looks like we have
>> the worst of that.
>
> will use Alan's patch.at first.
> already reused your patch about kstat. and move kstat_irqs to irq_desc.

Part of what I am thinking is that there should never be a patch
that does s/NR_IRQS/nr_irqs/ that is just pointless noise.

Either we need a new abstraction like for_each_irq or to update the
code to the current best practices.

Which means the patches should be uncontroversial and mergeble on their
own with no weird dependencies.

Eric