Re: [RFC patch 1/3] genirq: Add oneshot support

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:48:33PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>  
>  /**
> + *	irq_oneshot_primary_handler - Handle oneshot interrupt primary handler
> + *	@irq:		the interrupt number
> + *	@dev_id:	cookie to identify the device
> + *
> + *	For oneshot interrupts which keep the interrupt line masked
> + *	until the threaded handler has been executed, the only
> + *	functionality of the primary handler is to return
> + *	IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. This is the generic implementation which
> + *	avoids lots of duplicates all over the place
> + */
> +irqreturn_t irq_oneshot_primary_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
> +{
> +	return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_oneshot_primary_handler);

This kind of handler is useful not only for users of oneshot interrupts
but also other drivers using threaded IRQs. So maybe we should rename it
to default_threaded_irq_handler() and instead of exporting it simply
have it installed automatically when driver requests NULL in place of
IRQ handler in request_threaded_irq()?

Also, if IRQF_ONESHOT definition would make into mainline sooner than
later that would be great - then I'd be able to put all the drivers that
will end up using it into my next branch and not be concerned of
breaking linux-next.

-- 
Dmitry
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