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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> My core concerns are:
> - The generic code has no business with dealing with NR_IRQS sized arrays.
>  Since we don't have a generic problem I don't see why we should have a generic dyn_array solution.

there is some NR_IRQS arrays are left over and not put into PER_CPU?

Wonder if could use dyn_array with some of them.

YH