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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: irq: do not write mask register if it is not supported
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:57:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130214115746.GF13249@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511CD0A1.70606@nvidia.com>

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 05:25:13PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2013 05:05 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >This doesn't sound like something that should be open coded in
> >individual interrupt controller drivers, obviously it's a bit rubbish
> >that there's no way to enable or disable the interrupt but presumably
> >other hardware has the same "feature" and the IRQ subsystem ought to
> >understand it.

> To support such case, can we assume that mask is always enabled
> (interrupt enabled) so that it can be use in irq_thread to mask the
> interrupt status. So during initialization, if there is no mask_base
> register then all mask_buf is such that it enabled interrupt.

...and have any attempt to mask the interrupt return an error?

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-14 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 13:14 [PATCH 1/2] regmap: irq: Add support for interrupt type Laxman Dewangan
2013-02-13 13:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] regmap: irq: do not write mask register if it is not supported Laxman Dewangan
2013-02-13 14:20   ` Mark Brown
2013-02-14 11:06     ` Laxman Dewangan
2013-02-14 11:35       ` Mark Brown
2013-02-14 11:55         ` Laxman Dewangan
2013-02-14 11:57           ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-02-14 12:16             ` Laxman Dewangan
2013-02-13 13:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] regmap: irq: Add support for interrupt type Mark Brown
2013-02-14 11:01   ` Laxman Dewangan
2013-02-14 11:06     ` Mark Brown

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