diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/irq.h b/arch/sparc/kernel/irq.h
index a43fc46..ecff50f 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/irq.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/irq.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ extern struct sparc_irq_config sparc_irq_config;
 
 unsigned int irq_alloc(unsigned int real_irq, unsigned int pil);
 void irq_link(unsigned int irq);
+void irq_unlink(unsigned int irq);
 void handler_irq(unsigned int pil, struct pt_regs *regs);
 
 /* Dave Redman (djhr@tadpole.co.uk)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/irq_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/irq_32.c
index 9ce6b97..f698f07 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/irq_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/irq_32.c
@@ -105,12 +105,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_local_irq_restore);
  * Sun4d complicates things even further.  IRQ numbers are arbitrary
  * 32-bit values in that case.  Since this is similar to sparc64,
  * we adopt a virtual IRQ numbering scheme as is done there.
- * Virutal interrupt numbers are allocated by build_irq().  So NR_IRQS
+ * Virtual interrupt numbers are allocated by build_irq().  So NR_IRQS
  * just becomes a limit of how many interrupt sources we can handle in
  * a single system.  Even fully loaded SS2000 machines top off at
  * about 32 interrupt sources or so, therefore a NR_IRQS value of 64
  * is more than enough.
-  *
+ *
  * We keep a map of per-PIL enable interrupts.  These get wired
  * up via the irq_chip->startup() method which gets invoked by
  * the generic IRQ layer during request_irq().
@@ -135,9 +135,13 @@ unsigned int irq_alloc(unsigned int real_irq, 
unsigned int pil)
             return i;
     }
 
-    for (i = 1; i < NR_IRQS; i++) {
-        if (!irq_table[i].irq)
-            break;
+    if (real_irq < NR_IRQS && irq_table[real_irq].irq == 0) {
+        i = real_irq;
+    } else {
+        for (i = 1; i < NR_IRQS; i++) {
+            if (!irq_table[i].irq)
+                break;
+        }
     }