LinuxPPC-Dev Archive on lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ricardo Scop <scop@digitel.com.br>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Cc: DI BACCO ANTONIO - technolabs <Antonio.DiBacco@technolabs.it>
Subject: Re: Linux interrupt managing on 8xx
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:02:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706060102.07410.scop@digitel.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1F6EC0C8B75034F9E3A79FC85122E8E264992@aquib01a>

On Monday 04 June 2007 17:37, DI BACCO ANTONIO - technolabs wrote:
> I have a component named pca9555 (on the i2c bus) that is an I/O expander.
> It can generate an interrupt to the MPC8xx processor (SIU_IRQ1 pin). This
> pin will be active till I read registers of pca9555. Because I cannot
> access the i2c bus in the interrupt handler I queue a work on a work queue.
> Just at the end of the interrupt handler  should I disable the interrupt on
> the mpc8xx? I think that otherwise the interrupt will pop up again till I
> execute the work in the work queue finally reading the pca9555 and shutting
> off the source of the interrupt.

Well, why don't you simply program the interrupt to be edge-triggered in the 
SIEL register? This way it will only occur again after the pin level is 
cleared.

HTH,

Ricardo.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-04 20:37 Linux interrupt managing on 8xx DI BACCO ANTONIO - technolabs
2007-06-06  4:02 ` Ricardo Scop [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200706060102.07410.scop@digitel.com.br \
    --to=scop@digitel.com.br \
    --cc=Antonio.DiBacco@technolabs.it \
    --cc=linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox