linux-kernel - Re: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907221841340.2813@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:43:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@...roid.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>,
	m.szyprowski@...sung.com, t.fujak@...sung.com,
	kyungmin.park@...sung.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  The model is then to switch over to __set_irq_handler(),
> or maybe set_irq_chip_and_handler(), to replace the toplevel dispatch
> code for will-be-threaded IRQs which happen to be hooked up to inputs
> that don't sense edges.  (Agree, that seems like a goof.  But hardware
> designers sometimes have any choices there.)
> 
> The normal model is that boards don't get involved with that level of
> logic ... all IRQs get set up once on generic code, and flow handlers
> don't change.  Or if they do change, it's done when changing the IRQ's
> trigger mode from edge to level, or vice versa.
> 
> Can that be cleaned up a bit, so that the handle_level_oneshot_irq()
> and unmask_oneshot_irq() stuff kicks in automatically when needed,
> instead of requiring board-specific (or driver-specific) code to get
> that stuff right?

The only way I can see is to set a special trigger flag like
IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING & Co. 

i.e. IRQF_TRIGGER_LEVEL | IRQF_TRIGGER_ONESHOT

That might work.

Thanks,

	tglx
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