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    SubjectRe: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream
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    Hi Mark,

    On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Mark
    Brown<broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
    > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:59:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
    >
    > This looks like an unrelated (but useful) change:
    >
    >>   *
    >> + * http://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/511_000099_01F.pdf
    >>   */
    >
    > This too:
    >
    >>  static void decode_report(struct synaptics_ts_data *ts, u8 *buf)
    >>  {
    >> +/*
    >> + * This sensor sends two 6-byte absolute finger reports, an optional
    >> + * 2-byte relative report followed by a status byte. This function
    >> + * reads the two finger reports and transforms the coordinates
    >
    > Worth splitting them out?
    >
    >> +static irqreturn_t synaptics_ts_hardirq(int irq, void *dev_id)
    >> +{
    >> +     disable_irq_nosync(irq);
    >> +     return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
    >
    > Are you sure that this is going to work?  The IRQ thread code will not
    > call the thread function if the IRQ is marked as disabled so the thread
    > won't actually get called and the interrupt will just stay disabled (see
    > irq_thread() in kernel/irq/manage.c).  As far as I can see the threaded
    > IRQ support can't be used for devices on interrupt driven buses that
    > can't interact with the hardware in hardirq context but I might be
    > missing something here.
    >

    I think threaded irqs are used in USB drivers too, I can't locate the
    patches link for that.



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