Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: bcm2835: Fix support for threaded level triggered IRQs

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Apr 08 2015 - 10:43:38 EST


On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Charles Keepax
<ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently, the driver uses handle_simple_irq for all IRQ types and hard
> codes the acknowledge for different IRQ types into the handler. It is
> better to use the IRQ core as intended and let it handle the differences
> between the various types of IRQ. For example the current system does
> not work for threaded level triggered IRQs as these need to be masked
> until the threaded handler has run.
>
> Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks like a very fine patch so applied unless Stephen has
some problem with it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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