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From: Hannes Mayer <h.mayer@domain.hid>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] v2.1-rc4 RTDM bug
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hannes Mayer wrote:
>> Hannes Mayer wrote:
>>> Ciao Jan!
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem to make a difference if one uses
>>> RTDM_IRQ_NONE or RTDM_IRQ_HANDLED.
>>> With RTDM_IRQ_NONE the IRQ should be passed to linux,
>>> right ? But it doesn't seem to happen - this brought
>>> up the "top" problem I've posted a few days ago.
>> Returning XN_ISR_PROPAGATE passes the grabbed timer
>> interrupt to Linux and "top" works again.
>>
> 
> As forwarding interrupts to the non-realtime domain is not a common
> use-case of realtime device drivers, I decided to drop the propagation
> support at RTDM level. So if you are including this mechanism in your
> demo, please mark this pattern as something RTDM drivers should normally
> NOT do (and explain what's reason for it here).

Thanks Jan!

I'll add that in a few.

Best regards,
Hannes.