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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: ads7877: Remove bitrotted comment
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:16:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423101623.GL12304@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423003928.GB22547@core.coreip.homeip.net>

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 05:39:28PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:18:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Remove the bitrotted comment, though in actual fact the use case mentioned
> > is a great use for spi_async() since it would cut down on latency handling
> > the interrupt by saving us a context switch before we start SPI.

> > This was previously implemented, it was removed in commit b534422b2d11
> > (Input: ad7877 - switch to using threaded IRQ) for code complexity reasons.
> > It may be better to revert that commit instead.

> Hmm, maybe.. although I think original would cause device 'stuck' if
> call to spi_async() fails, so probably not a straight revert...

Probably best just to apply this, then - someone can always reimplement
if they need to.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-22 21:18 [PATCH] Input: ads7877: Remove bitrotted comment Mark Brown
2014-04-23  0:39 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-04-23 10:16   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-04-25  6:38     ` Dmitry Torokhov

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