From: Vladimir Zapolskiy <v...@mleia.com>
Date: Wed,  2 Dec 2015 08:12:13 +0200

> If the driver is used on an ARM platform with SPARSE_IRQ defined,
> semantics of NR_IRQS is different (minimal value of virtual irqs) and
> by default it is set to 16, see arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h.
> 
> This value may be less than the actual number of virtual irqs, which
> may break the driver initialization. The check removal allows to use
> the driver on such a platform, and, if irq controller driver works
> correctly, the check is not needed on legacy platforms.
> 
> Fixes a runtime problem:
> 
>     lpc-eth 31060000.ethernet: error getting resources.
>     lpc_eth: lpc-eth: not found (-6).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <v...@mleia.com>

Applied.
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