[PATCH V2] ST SPEAr: Adding support for shared irq layer

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon May 3 04:10:21 EDT 2010


On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:20:02AM +0530, Viresh KUMAR wrote:
> On 5/1/2010 3:26 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Patch looks fine - my only concern is that the IRQ subsystem isn't used
> > to decode things like serial status register interrupts.  It's supposed
> > to be used to decode the interrupt using the interrupt controllers only.
> 
> Russell,
> 
> I didn't understood your point clearly. Few weeks back i raised this query
> in LKML, and you suggested to implement this layer using irq_chained_handlers.
> And this is how it is done in multiple platforms, and GPIO everywhere.
> 
> Should i implement it some other way?

It's just a reminder that this approach shouldn't be over used.  As I said
your patch is fine.



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