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Message-ID: <d120d5000710121029q400d05d8s38ae8769f2f44b15@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:29:31 -0400
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
Cc: "Bryan Wu" <bryan.wu@...log.com>,
linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-joystick@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH try #2] Input/Joystick Driver: add support AD7142 joystick driver
Hi Ahmed,
On 10/12/07, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:38:47PM +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com>
> > ---
>
> Hi Bryan,
>
> Why creating module's own kthread to call ad7142_decode and process keycodes
> instead of using a tasklet ?
>
Yo can't access i2c from a tasklet context.
> Isn't disabling device interrupts from the begining of the ISR "ad7142_interrupt"
> till the kthread "ad7142_thread" got waked-up and scheduled a long time,
> espicially if there's a high load on the userspace side ?
>
It is OK - you disable a specific interrupt line preventing it from
raising any more IRQs until current one is serviced. This is different
from disabling interrupts on CPU.
> Minor issues below.
>
> > +
> > +/* R ADC stage 0 - 11 result (uncompensated) actually located in SRAM */
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S0 0x0B
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S1 0x0C
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S2 0x0D
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S3 0x0E
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S4 0x0F
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S5 0x10
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S6 0x11
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S7 0x12
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S8 0x13
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S9 0x14
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S10 0x15
> > +#define ADCRESULT_S11 0x16
> > +
>
> Keeping last two lines aligned with their above counterparts ?
I believe they are aligned if you aplly the patch.
--
Dmitry
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