linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/25] dyn_array and nr

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Date:	Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:04:18 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Mike Travis" <travis@....com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v3

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> It appears that quite a few of the places you have changed are testing
> to see if an irq is valid.  The idiomatic way to perform that test in
> the kernel is:
>
> if (irq)

is uninitialized irq to be -1 or 0?

>
> With no test to see if you are >= NR_IRQS.
>
> I expect that is the change we want in the drivers that are performing such a silly
> extra check.

is_irq_valid(irq_no) ?

wait to see your new patchset about dyn irq_cfg and irq_desc

YH
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