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Message-ID: <20081011143600.GB1556@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:36:00 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] hardware irq debouncing support
Hi!
> > > Ok, so the limitations of various chips vary a lot...which means that
> > > it's difficult to predict what IRQF_DEBOUNCED actually does.
> >
> > The specific QOS achieved is system-specific; the term for
> > that kind of mechanism is "hinting". It's very clearly defined
> > what the hint means .. but a given system might not use it.
>
> I know that, but is "hinting" really what drivers need?
>
> > The madvise(2) system call is a userspace example of hinting.
>
> That's different. Ignoring madvise() hints might hurt performance
> slightly, but it won't result in any fundamentally different behaviour.
>
> On the other hand, lack of debouncing might cause the gpio_keys driver
> to report 1000 keypresses instead of one when the user pushes a button.
> That's much more harmful.
>
> So if someone goes and replaces the debounce timer in gpio_keys with
> this IRQF_DEBOUNCE flag, it might work very well on hardware which
> happens to use a 30 ms debounce interval, but will break horribly on
> hardware with shorter debounce intervals.
Right. So you don't _replace_ debounce timer, you just do both timer
and IRQF_.
> > > > Why require "software debouncing" if perhaps the hardware could do
> > > > it all for you?
> > >
> > > Because of the "perhaps" part of your sentence.
> >
> > I'm not sure which sentence you refer too, but the first
> > "perhaps" above is yours! :)
>
> I mean that it's difficult to rely on hardware that "perhaps" can do
> debouncing for you. I think many drivers need to know for sure.
Why? You write code as if no debouncing exist...
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