Re: Threaded interrupts for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream

Thomas Gleixner
2009-07-22T15:15:59Z

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Mark Brown wrote:

> 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.

They just are racy against disable/enable/request/free I guess :)