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From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To: Mattias Wallin <mattias.wallin@stericsson.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MFD: ab8500-debugfs irq support
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:51:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101126155127.GE27663@sortiz-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290773229-9119-1-git-send-email-mattias.wallin@stericsson.com>

Hi Mattias,

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:07:09PM +0100, Mattias Wallin wrote:
> This patch makes it possible to listned for ab8500 interrupts
> from userspace. A sysfs file is dynamically created
> and sysfs_notify is called when an interrupt occurs. This will
> make the userspace poll call to be released.
I think writing a UIO driver for that matter will make your life a lot easier.
And to be honest, having an IRQ handler on a debugfs related piece of code
sounds just wrong.

Cheers,
Samuel.

-- 
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
http://oss.intel.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-26 12:07 [PATCH 2/2] MFD: ab8500-debugfs irq support Mattias Wallin
2010-11-26 15:51 ` Samuel Ortiz [this message]
2010-11-30  9:56   ` Mattias Wallin

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