linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: ar1021 - use IRQ_NOAUTOEN flags to replace disable

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Date:   Fri, 1 Jan 2021 21:55:08 -0800
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Cc:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: ar1021 - use IRQ_NOAUTOEN flags to replace
 disable_irq

Hi Barry,

On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 05:29:02PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> disable_irq() after request_irq is unsafe as it gives a time gap which
> irq can come before disable_irq(). IRQ_NOAUTOEN is the common way to
> avoid enabling IRQ due to requesting IRQ.

Actually it is OK for the ISR to fire before the input device is
registered, input core allows that.

What I would like to see is to allow passing something like
IRQF_DISABLED to request_irq() so that we would not need neither
irq_set_status_flags() nor disable_irq().

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry