Re: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream

Mark Brown
2009-07-22T14:56:55Z

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:52:21PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The chips I'm deling with can certainly support doing that but I'm not
> > sure there'd be enormous advantages - a lot of the interrupt handlers
> > will either be trivial (eg, RTC ticks or alarms) or be serialised by a
> > need to interact with the chip anyway. I'd expect this to be generally
> > true, though ICBW.

> So in your case it would be possible to run the various subdevice
> thread_fn handlers from your main interrupt thread one after each
> other ?

That's what they're all doing at present outside of genirq.