[PATCH 0/5] Fix regression introduced by set_irq_flags() removal

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Tue Dec 8 02:54:11 PST 2015


On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> When a device driver uses a normal (non per-CPU) interrupt, then it
> doesn't have to take care of disabling the interrupt on suspend and
> re-enabling the interrupt on resume at the interrupt controller level.
> This is all transparently handled by the irqchip driver.
> 
> Why should the handling of per-CPU interrupts be different and require
> explicit handling from each device driver rather than being
> transparently handled by the irqchip driver ?

Fair enough. Did not think about the boot cpu part.

Thanks,

	tglx



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