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From: fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp,
	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix return value of i8042_aux_test_irq
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:57:09 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2090.172.50.1.13.1185465429.squirrel@172.19.0.2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070726162913.2dc9a9b2@the-village.bc.nu>

On Fri, July 27, 2007 12:29 am, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > A small number of boxes do share IRQ12 and it was switched to shared
>> for
>> > them.
>> If that is the case interrupt handlers should be able to determine
>> whether
>> a certain interrupt comes from their respective devices, and return
>> IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_NONE accordingly. Returning IRQ_HANDLED
>> unconditionally
>> when IRQF_SHARED is set seems strange. Is this behavior intended?
>
> Sometimes you simple can't tell and in those cases you have no choice.
As I mentioned in a previous email, i8042_interrupt considers that it
should not handle an interrupt when there is no data to read and,
accordingly, it returns IRQ_NONE in such cases. I was just wondering if we
could follow the same approach to make i8042_aux_test_irq more
IRQF_SHARED-friendly.

 - Fernando


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-26 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-26  8:04 Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2007-07-26 13:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-26 14:10   ` Alan Cox
2007-07-26 14:49     ` fernando
2007-07-26 15:29       ` Alan Cox
2007-07-26 15:57         ` fernando [this message]
2007-07-29  5:27           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-26 14:38   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2007-07-26 14:39   ` fernando
2007-07-26 15:51   ` fernando

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