Re: [PATCH 1/2] PRUSS UIO driver support

["Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:27:47AM +0530, TK, Pratheesh Gangadhar wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hans J. Koch [mailto:hjk@hansjkoch.de]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:04 AM
> > To: TK, Pratheesh Gangadhar
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner; Arnd Bergmann; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org;
> > davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com; gregkh@suse.de;
> > Chatterjee, Amit; Hans J. Koch; LKML
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PRUSS UIO driver support
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:23PM +0530, TK, Pratheesh Gangadhar wrote:
> > >
> > > For my understanding - if the interrupt is not shared and not level
> > triggered -
> > > is this okay to have empty handler?
> > 
> > Greg already said he won't accept that. And I'm quite sure these
> > interrupts
> > are level triggered, since that is the default on arch/omap.
> > 
> > E.g. in arch/arm/mach-omap1/irq.c, a loop sets all irqs to level triggered
> > handling: set_irq_handler(j, handle_level_irq); (line 234)
> 
> You should be looking at arch/arm/mach-davinci/irq.c

Hmpf. I alway get lost in the directory structure of TI SoCs...
At least I learned that OMAP3 is in the omap2 directory :)

> and all interrupts except IRQ_TINT1_TINT34 is set to edge trigger mode (line 160).

Is that really needed? Level triggered interrupts should certainly be
preferred if possible.

Thanks,
Hans