[PATCH 1/3] tty: serial: meson: modify request_irq and free_irq

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Dec 20 23:30:23 PST 2021


On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 03:16:32PM +0800, Yu Tu wrote:
> Change request_irq to devm_request_irq and free_irq to devm_free_irq.
> It's better to change the code this way.

Why?  What did this fix up?  You still are manually requesting and
freeing the irq.  What bug did you fix?

> 
> The IRQF_SHARED interrupt flag was added because an interrupt error was
> detected when the serial port was opened twice in a row on the project.

That is a different change.  Make that a different patch.

thanks,

greg k-h



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