linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 16/19] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Add short circuit detection support

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Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:37:36 -0600
From:   "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Benoît Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/19] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Add short circuit detection
 support

On 12/07/2017 06:03 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 02:22:39PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 12/01/2017 09:32 AM, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> 
>>>> This will report the interrupt as handled even if we didn't see an
>>>> interrupt we understand which will break shared interrupt lines.  At the
>>>> very least we should log other interrupt sources numerically.
> 
>>> Okay, I think I can make that work by checking if no bits are set in the
>>> interrupt regs and returning early if not, IRQ_NONE.
> 
>> This turned out to be more difficult than I expected, plus if I do
>> handle an interrupt it doesn't mean the other device did not right? So
>> this wouldn't fix shared lines as far as I can tell, but I don't
>> register it as shared so this should be fine.
> 
> It'll mean that we don't offer the interrupt to anything else sharing
> the line.
> 
>> As for your other suggestion of "log other interrupt sources
>> numerically", could you explain this or point to an example of what you
>> mean?
> 
> Just print out the bits that were set.
> 

I don't see anyone else doing this, what would that solve? Maybe I still
don't get what you mean here. :(