Re: [PATCH 00/33] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v4

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:02:18 -0700
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > A lot of these are range checks so could be replaced by a single
> > valid_irq(irq) test.
> 
> Yes.  My first impression was that with NR_IRQS dead valid_irq could
> easily become. #define valid_irq(irq) ((irq) != 0) 

Not really - there are lots of cases where we sanity check an IRQ passed
from user space or module parameter configuration. So we do actually need

	valid_irq(irq)		((irq) > 0 && (irq) < nr_irqs)

[or relevant per arch alternatives]

Alan
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