[PATCH v5 2/9] drivers: irqchip: Add STM32 external interrupts support

Alexandre Torgue alexandre.torgue at st.com
Wed Sep 14 06:44:12 PDT 2016



On 09/14/2016 03:34 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Alexandre Torgue wrote:
>> On 09/14/2016 11:19 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>
>>> Now what really bugs me is that you do that at all. An interrupt which is
>>> freed must be masked already. Why is it unmasked in the first place?
>>
>> Honestly I don't know. When "devm_free_irq" is called to release virq, there
>> is no issue and interrupt is well masked. But, when I tried to use
>> "irq_dispose_mapping(virq)" I observed that .free is called (child and parent
>> domain) but interrupt is not masked.
>
> Well, you just used some function in some context which is not relevant to
> the normal operation. So adding that mask() is just paranoia for no value.

I agree. I just wanted to "force" a test for .free callback. If it not 
relevant I'll remove ".free" callback of exti domain.
As a part of this series has already been taken by Linus (pinctrl part), 
I will send a new series only for irqchip part (patches [1] and [2]). Do 
you agree ?

Thanks
Alex


>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>






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