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From: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250 driver interrupt sharing
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:17:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410281317.41817.thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041028120026.B3327@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thursday 28 October 2004 13:00, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:01:58PM +0200, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> > here is a little patch that causes the driver to no longer pretend having
> > handled an interrupt if none of the ports actually interrupted. I am
> > currently doing a port to a platform where I want (actually, have) to
> > share a single interrupt between serial ports and other devices. The
> > patch is against kernel version 2.6.9.
>
> You can only share serial port interrupts with other devices if the
> interrupt controller input is level sensitive rather than edge
> sensitive.  If it is edge sensitive, then you'll run into problems.

On my target platform, interrupts are indeed level sensitive, so this
should not be a problem (for me).

Does this problem somehow invalidate my patch? Even if interrupts were
edge sensitive, returning IRQ_NONE should ok, or not?

tk

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Thomas Koeller, Software Development
Basler Vision Technologies

thomas dot koeller at baslerweb dot com
http://www.baslerweb.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-28 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28 11:01 [PATCH] 8250 driver interrupt sharing Thomas Koeller
2004-10-28 11:00 ` Russell King
2004-10-28 11:17   ` Thomas Koeller [this message]
2004-10-28 11:18     ` Russell King
2004-11-01 12:10 ` Russell King

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