linux-kernel - Re: Where is the interrupt going?

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Message-Id: <200711230258.56066.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:58:55 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	niessner@....nasa.gov, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where is the interrupt going?

On Friday 23 November 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:48:53 -0800
> niessner@....nasa.gov wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I tried the hammer and the problem persists.
> 
> See my earlier email - your driver registers the irq with IRQF_DISABLED
> then never enables it.

As already explained by Kyle IRQF_DISABLED shouldn't matter here.

[ Nowadays IRQF_DISABLED only tells kernel/irq/handle.c::handle_IRQ_event()
  to not enable local interrupts before calling your IRQ handler.

  I've recently removed IRQF_DISABLED from IDE after noticing this. ]

Bart
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