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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pci: fix unavailable irq number 255 reported by
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Cao jin wrote:
> How about using IRQ_BITMAP_BITS as that "irq_valid" flag? because it is the
> ceiling of struct irq_desc irq_desc[], and request_irq() will return -EINVAL
> in case of the ceiling.
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
> # define IRQ_BITMAP_BITS	(NR_IRQS + 8196)
> #else
> # define IRQ_BITMAP_BITS	NR_IRQS
> #endif

No. This is a core internal implementation detail.

Thanks,

	tglx