linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irq: always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified

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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:13:38 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:	balbi@...com, Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mporter@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is
 specified

HI,

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:25:35AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >>Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> >>>Let me report that with this change Beagle board fails to boot,
> >>>hangs right on rootfs mount.
> >>Can you provide some more information about the kind of the failure and
> >>used drivers?
> >>
> >>>Users of BB should revert this until the offending driver(s) are fixed.
> >>Which is the offending driver?
> >
> >I would guess it's the lack of threaded IRQ conversion on the
> >twl4030 driver. I have converted it but noone actually picked the series
> >[1].
> 
> This makes no sense. If you don't use threaded handlers that means
> you specify a primary handler and therefore the patch does not change a
> thing for you.

the thing is that twl's children are using threaded IRQs, but no the
core itself.

-- 
balbi

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