From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755329AbZB1UUM (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:20:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753345AbZB1UT6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:19:58 -0500 Received: from smtp123.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.96]:22197 "HELO smtp123.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753261AbZB1UT5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:19:57 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=5csqxrLfCYhU6fJqf/ORHKRLsftSORDWYaFK188ZTtyGwGtNw+pHsKNSq8vOnszGJD6yqeOuWGSdW+QwFlsFQ1DqM+valpS1f15LLPXUgbr8h4Fc64zubzSEhqXV8JuoR2MXXRRDgeRNhp3FyNjn879RRLmxpETQ9BHcbYD1ytA= ; X-YMail-OSG: purL78cVM1kMAGh2FOEhknmgeFtxXZvVA1gqvBDuuBoA4qhBK8I7asaqm.jckO_aTo_2KFyawFzqMcB8.OIjCOMeoiFfDXkPNoxENPi.E1bb2LH7uiGLqb_vnP2s9BfGkzE0clsF3xT9NhCqoMghWBzu7oAy1WI6TjEkZwD84Sq58Y6ecMUxhXyfm9YW X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: lockdep and threaded IRQs Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:19:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Andrew Morton , me@felipebalbi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, sameo@openedhand.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de References: <1235762883-20870-1-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com> <200902272046.50572.david-b@pacbell.net> <49A92487.3020108@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <49A92487.3020108@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902281219.54200.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 28 February 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: > Ah, so there /is/ a threaded IRQ handler implementation in > the mainline, down in some driver framework... One that's a bit more powerful than the recent patch proposal, I'd say, since it chains. > Why don't these drivers simply use ? Most do. In fact, that one *does* ... what's your point? If I hadn't know that more generic threaded IRQ support was already on the way, I might have done more with that particular driver than just massive cleanup. I stopped short of some changes that it seemed genirq should obviate before too long. As always, more cleanup *could* be done. - Dave