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Message-ID: <20180428051043.GG6014@localhost> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 10:40:43 +0530 From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> Cc: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer.private@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: axi-dmac: Request IRQ with IRQF_SHARED On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:18:29PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 04/27/2018 05:15 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote: > > Hi Vinod, > > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:08 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:53:39AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > >>> On 04/27/2018 07:11 AM, Vinod Koul wrote: > >>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:40:00AM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote: > >>>>> Request IRQ with IRQF_SHARED flag. This works since the interrupt > >>>>> handler already checks if there is an actual IRQ pending and returns > >>>>> IRQ_NONE otherwise. > >>>> > >>>> hmmm what are we trying to fix here? Is your device on a shared line or not? > >>> > >>> IRQF_SHARED does not mean that the IRQ is on a shared line. It means that > >>> the driver can handle it if the IRQ is on a shared line. Since the driver > >>> can handle it setting the flag is a good idea since this enables usecases > >>> where the line is shared. > >> > >> Yes that is correct indeed, but what is the motivation for the change. > >> > >> If you never expect this to be in shared environment why to do this? > >> Sorry but "it works" is not a good enough reason for this change, to enable > >> usecases where the line is shared is a good reason :) > > > > Remember, this is an FPGA soft core. I happen to have a design [1] where it > > is hooked up with multiple of them on one IRQ line, so to make this work, > > I need this change. > > I think what Vinod is asking for is a change to the commit message saying > that "this change enables the driver to be used with devices where the > interrupt line is shared". Correct, changelog need to reflect why a change was made, down the line people need to know the reasons, sometimes it might be even you.. -- ~Vinod
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