From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:53:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20090302235327.GB19084@elte.hu> References: <1235762883-20870-1-git-send-email-me@felipebalbi.com> <200903021520.30826.david-b@pacbell.net> <20090302232650.GA14515@elte.hu> <200903021542.25153.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:56903 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752043AbZCBXyA (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:54:00 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200903021542.25153.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: David Brownell Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , me@felipebalbi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, sameo@openedhand.com, tglx@linutronix.de * David Brownell 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