[PATCH v2 2/2] irqchip: sun4i: simplify sun4i_irq_ack
Maxime Ripard
maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Mon Mar 17 07:12:45 EDT 2014
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Now that we only ack irq 0 the code can be simplified a lot.
>
> Also switch from read / modify / write to a simple write clear:
> 1) This is what the android code does (it has a hack for acking irq 0
> in its unmask code doing this)
> 2) read / modify / write simply does not make sense for an irq status
> register like this, if the other bits are writeable (and the data sheet says
> they are not) they should be write 1 to clear, since otherwise a read /
> modify / write can race with a device raising an interrupt and then clear
> the pending bit unintentionally
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
Thanks!
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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