linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] mfd: twl6030-irq: move to threaded

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Message-ID: <20101228161657.GF2239@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:16:57 +0200
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] mfd: twl6030-irq: move to threaded_irq

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 03:46:17PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 03:59:49PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
>> +	disable_irq_nosync(irq);
>
>You shouldn't need this any more; the driver used to be faffing around
>with this because it wasn't using genirq for this in the past.
>
>> +	for (i = 0; sts.int_sts; sts.int_sts >>= 1, i++) {
>> +		local_irq_disable();
>
>Simiarly here as far as I know; the original code predates genirq
>support for this so is doing some hairy stuff that is no longer
>required and may actually be harmful.

Aa, true. Forgot that one.

>What I'd expect to see from a conversion like this would be that most of
>the locking/IRQ management stuff would be dropped and the bus_lock() and
>bus_sync_unlock() operations would be implemented.

I'll look into it, thanks.

-- 
balbi
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