linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] mfd: twl6030-irq: move to threaded

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Date:	Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:46:17 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] mfd: twl6030-irq: move to threaded_irq

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 03:59:49PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> +	disable_irq_nosync(irq);

You shouldn't need this any more; the driver used to be faffing around
with this because it wasn't using genirq for this in the past.

> +	for (i = 0; sts.int_sts; sts.int_sts >>= 1, i++) {
> +		local_irq_disable();

Simiarly here as far as I know; the original code predates genirq
support for this so is doing some hairy stuff that is no longer
required and may actually be harmful.

What I'd expect to see from a conversion like this would be that most of
the locking/IRQ management stuff would be dropped and the bus_lock() and
bus_sync_unlock() operations would be implemented.
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