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From: "Peter 'p2' De Schrijver" <peter.de-schrijver@nokia.com>
To: ext David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: does twl3040-pwrirq.c "need" to be a separate file?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:22:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930092225.GD4552@codecarver.research.nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809291417.12437.david-b@pacbell.net>

Hi David,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:17:12PM -0700, ext David Brownell wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I see your patch 68d7477caca19c0b52b5d4e85700cd3e6115577f created
> pwrirq.c as a separate file and thread.
> 

I guess choose this solution because it was similar to the GPIO IRQs.
Originally, this was 1 shared IRQ. But I wanted to change this to avoid
every driver having to read PWR_ISR1 and clear his interrupt. This saves
some i2c transactions.

> I'm wondering if there's any particular reason that "bank" of
> interrupts shouldn't be handled directly by twl4030-core, and
> even by the same IRQ handling thread.
> 

I don't think so.

> As it stands now the TWL "core" is not especially core-ish in
> this respect, and I'd like to see that be resolved (e.g. by a
> patch I'll probably write this afternoon) before this code
> goes to mainline ...

Ok. Good.

Cheers,

Peter.

-- 
goa is a state of mind

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 21:17 does twl3040-pwrirq.c "need" to be a separate file? David Brownell
2008-09-30  9:22 ` Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [this message]
2008-09-30 18:03   ` David Brownell

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