Re: [PATCH v3] usb: gadget: Add UDC driver for Aeroflex GaislerGRUSBDC

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Mon Dec 16 2013 - 16:26:43 EST


Hi,

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:24:12PM +0100, Andreas Larsson wrote:
> >>>Also, the way you're using thread IRQs is quite wrong. I can't let that
> >>>pass and get merged upstream, sorry.
> >>
> >>What is quite wrong? What is it that I need to fix?
> >
> >Ideally the hardirq handler should be usually to actually check if
> >$this_device generated the IRQ, that should involve reading a IRQSTATUS
> >register of some sort.
> >
> >Sure, check that IRQs are actually enabled, but you also need to read
> >STATUS register before waking the thread up.
>
> I agree that that would be preferable. Unfortunately, the hardware
> lacks status register bits that indicates whether interrupts has been
> generated or not. That is why the only check is if interrupts are
> disabled, because that is the only sure way to know that the softirq
> handler does not need to go through everything.

so it seems, fair enough then. Keep it the way it is.

cheers

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balbi

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