netdev - Re: [PATCH 02/12 net-next] qca_spi: Improve SPI IRQ handling

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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:14:27 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12 net-next] qca_spi: Improve SPI IRQ handling

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 04:09:34PM +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> The functions qcaspi_netdev_open/close are responsible of request &
> free of the SPI interrupt, which wasn't the best choice because
> allocation problems are discovered not during probe. So let us split
> IRQ allocation & enabling, so we can take advantage of a device
> managed IRQ.

Could you replace the kernel thread with a threaded interrupt handler?

      Andrew