Re: [PATCH] input/keyboard: add ADP5588 QWERTY I2C Keyboard Input device driver

[Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 23:49, Barry Song wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:19:14AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:20, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>> > BTW, maybe you shoudl convert to threaded IRQs here?
>>>
>>> yes, after your suggestion for the previous driver, we've been looking
>>> at all our input drivers to convert to threaded IRQs.  do we need to
>>> convert all of them before acceptance, or can we merge now and post an
>>> updated patch after ?
>>
>> It really depends on the driver. If there is a race between IRQ and the
>> WQ in the driver I will request you to fix it one way or another before
>> accepting the driver (and quite often using threaded IRQ gets rid of the
>> race). In the cases like this particular driver though I am not even
>> convinced that we need threaded IRQ. The driver is not expected to
>> generate lots of events rapidly so using keventd as it does now is
>> probably the best solution.
>
> Even though CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS is almost always "y", in case
> CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS is "n" not "y", threaded_irq will become
> original irq, drivers will not work. So is it necessary to check the
> dependence of GENERIC_HARDIRQS while using threaded_irq?

when is GENERIC_HARDIRQS not "y" ?  a quick check shows only s390/m68k
dont set it to "y" in their arch Kconfig ?  s390 isnt going to use any
of these drivers, and m68k will eventually update (m68knommu already
has !?).
-mike