Re: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:49:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 06:00:07PM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote:
> > 
> > > Hopefully, this thread can give all details about threaded irq discussion.
> > 
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/27/255
> > 
> > Yes, I'm aware of that - I read it at the time.  It seemed to peter out
> > without any satisfactory solution, unfortunately.  There's two separate
> > issues here:
> > 
> >  - Ordinary devices on interrupt driven or slow buses like I2C.  These
> >    need something along the lines of request_threaded_irq() that's allows
> >    them to schedule the main IRQ handler outside hardirq context so
> >    that they can interact with the device.  They need to do something in
> >    hardirq context to disable the interrupt if it's level triggered but
> >    most of the time the only option they've got is to disable the IRQ
> >    and reenable it when the worker thread is done.  This is the issue
> >    here.

There is already a sane solution to the problem:

      See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/17/174 

> >    My immediate thought when I noticed this was that we should probably
> >    fix request_threaded_irq() so that it's useful for them; I'd been
> >    intending to do some digging and try to understand why it is
> >    currently implemented as it is.

What's to fix there ? 
 
> >  - Multi-function devices like the twl4030 which have an interrupt
> >    controller on them and would like to expose that interrupt controller
> >    via the generic IRQ subsystem.  This was a large part of the
> >    discussion in the thread above is a much trickier problem.

Why ?

> > I've added the folks from Samsung posting the MELFAS MCS-5000 driver to
> > the thread since they're running into the same issue.
> > 
> 
> Let's also add Thomas and David since I believe they worked on the
> feature.
> 
> >From my part I would like to have the threaded IRQ available to all
> drivers since it seens to be hanlding driver shutdown cleanly and
> without races which is a big plus for me since very few drivers get it
> right.

:)

Thanks,

	tglx