Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:53:27 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) |
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* David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > If you want to work on genirq threaded IRQ handlers them please > > check out and test the threaded IRQ handlers patches that are > > being worked on at lkml. See: > > > > [patch 0/4] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers V2 > > I did check them out, as noted earlier in this thread. > > The significant omission is lack of support for chaining > such threads. Example, an I2C device that exposes > several dozen IRQs with mask/ack/... operations that > require I2C access.
Well, those are rarely used, embedded-only constructs - the main focus of IRQ threading patches are the more common patterns.
Since you care about them - could you please send patches on top of the IRQ threading patches to add support for them?
Thanks,
Ingo
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