linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH x86] i8259A_32: Remove redundant irq_desc[NR

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Message-ID: <20080218023542.GA30201@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:35:42 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86] i8259A_32: Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQ]
	initialization


* Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com> wrote:

> Remove redundant irq_desc[NR_IRQS] element initialization in 
> init_ISA_irqs(). irq_desc[NR_IRQS] is already statically initialized 
> with the same values in kernel/irq/handle.c .

nice catch - applied. This also saves a few bytes of image space:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1389     356      14    1759     6df i8259_32.o.before
   1325     356      14    1695     69f i8259_32.o.after

	Ingo
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