diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3c3c35bc32a8..f028f2d85622 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: e9daf2ad7f603f173d7cd7ee3673b326414f82f4
+refs/heads/master: ad5b7f1350c263eef0c99c20f8659d0ed363cb32
diff --git a/trunk/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/trunk/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 613eacf7f409..4eecaaa54451 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/trunk/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS && PPC_BOOK3S_64
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
 	select HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
+	select SPARSE_IRQ
 	select IRQ_PER_CPU
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
diff --git a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 01e2877e8e04..9b6e80668cfb 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ extern int tau_interrupts(int);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_desc);
-#endif
-
 int distribute_irqs = 1;
 
 static inline notrace unsigned long get_hard_enabled(void)