linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Input: snvs_pwrkey - only IRQ

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:55:13 +0200
From:   Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de>
To:     Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        André Draszik <git@...red.net>,
        Robin Gong <yibin.gong@....com>,
        Anson Huang <anson.huang@....com>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Input: snvs_pwrkey - only IRQ_HANDLED for our own
 events

Hi,

On 20-07-23 10:43, Horia Geantă wrote:
> From: André Draszik <git@...red.net>
> 
> The snvs_pwrkey shares the SNVS LPSR status register with the snvs_rtc.
> 
> This driver here should only return IRQ_HANDLED if the status register
> indicates that the event we're handling in the irq handler was genuinely
> intended for this driver. Otheriwse the interrupt subsystem will
> assume the interrupt was handled successfully even though it wasn't
> at all.

After checking the RM and the imx6qdl.dtsi I'm not very sure that this
is right since the snvs-powerkey has a seperate irq-line. So we can be
sure that this irq is for us. If this is the case we don't need to check
the SNVS_LPSR_REG instead we only need to clear it.

Regards,
  Marco