linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: change remove NR

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Message-ID: <20080801001508.676a5782@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:15:08 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, 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] serial: change remove NR_IRQS in 8250.c

> The practical question is how do we cleanly kill the array
> irq_lists[NR_IRQS].  YH's hack where he isn't paying attention to what
> the code is doing and just trying to avoid the problem is not
> something I am fond of seeing being merged.
> 
> It is also true that sorting out 8250.c and by extension the other
> serial drivers that have cloned it is the significant non-arch
> piece of work needed to kill NR_IRQs

Lets just make it happen next week. It needs doing and while it wasn't
top of the serial work list this is a good reason to kill it off.

Alan
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