linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pca953x: pca953x driver fixes for x86 mrst

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Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:53:06 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pca953x: pca953x driver fixes for x86 mrst

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:47:47 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> From: Alek Du <alek.du@...el.com>
> 
> Our Moorestown platform has two max7315 chips which is covered by
> pca953x i2c gpio driver.
> 
> A while ago this driver got updated with nested irq thread support, and it
> broke the compatibity with "request_irq". For example, the gpio_keys.c
> driver can not work with this driver now. This patch fixes the issue by
> switching to generic_handle_irq.
> 
> Also fix the irq_base issue: irq_base == 0 is valid, and a "-1" value
> should mean invalid. IRQ 0 is not a valid IRQ, irq_base of 0 is valid.

This sounds like a regression fix.  Should it be backported into
-stable?

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