linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] add IRQF_NO_AUTOEN for request

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Message-ID: <YBHC6SzXAOSNoQnI@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:45:45 -0800
From:   "dmitry.torokhov@...il.com" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "maz@...nel.org" <maz@...nel.org>,
        "linuxarm@...neuler.org" <linuxarm@...neuler.org>,
        "linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] add IRQF_NO_AUTOEN for request_irq

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:49:21PM +0100, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:38:28PM +0000, Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) wrote:
> > Hi Thomas, Greg, Dmitry, Marc,
> > Any further comment on this new API? 
> 
> It's not my subsystem, I'll let the irq maintainers handle it :)

Not my subsystem either, but I would like to have this feature
available. I do not like calling irq_set_status_flags() before
request_irq() as at that time we are not ensured of irq ownership, and
using disable_irq() afterwards is indeed awkward.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry