Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq: support IRQ_NESTED_THREAD with non-threaded interrupt handlers

[Esben Haabendal <esbenhaabendal@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> Maybe you understand now, why I was pretty sure upfront, that your
> approach was wrong even without knowing all the gory details ? :)

I understand.  There is a better solution, which is to use threaded
interrupts where needed.

But I must confess that I am disappointed that you still fail to see
how the pca953x
patch actually eliminates the need for serialization. But I don't
think there is much
point in going on about that.

The phy driver should be rewritten to use a threaded handler, it will
solve my particular problem.
And in the meantime, I have been promised to get the phy interrupts ofloade=
d
to real CPU interrupt lines :-)

Oh, I still think that the disable_irq_nosync documentaiton is misleading.
Functions that are allowed in a particular context should not call function=
s
that are not allowed to be called in that context. But now I know :-)

/Esben
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