linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genirq: fix trigger flags check for shared irqs

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:45:32 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@....com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: fix trigger flags check for shared irqs

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Brian Starkey wrote:

> For shared interrupts, if one requester passes in any IRQF_TRIGGER_*
> flags whilst another doesn't, __setup_irq() can erroneously fail.
> 
> The no-flags case should be treated as "already configured", so change
> __setup_irq() to only check that the flags match if any have been
> provided.

What happens if that "already configured", i.e. the default setting, is
conflicting with the newly requested interrupt?

I rather prefer the failure than the resulting silent wreckage.
 
Thanks,

	tglx