linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Don't allow nr_irqs > NR

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Message-Id: <1225912531.3074.73.camel@achroite>
Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:15:31 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:11 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
[...]
> Ben I didn't manage to get a look over ACPI related changes
> (ie to find the reason why the kernel is able to reveal 5 IO-APICs
>  now
[...]

I was mistaken; that *isn't* a recent change.  A default RHEL 5 kernel
(based on 2.6.18) also finds 5 IOAPICs.

Ben.

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