Re: DM9000_IRQ_FLAGS

[Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 02:41:53PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> Hi Remy,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:31:03PM +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> > This controller is also used on many other boards, like the e.g. Atmel
> > AT91sam9261-ek board. On that board on both the rising _and_ falling
> > edge an interrupt is generated.
> 
> However, request_irq() is called with IRQF_SHARED only, so neither
> IRQT_RISING nor IRQT_FALLING is set and the value defaults to
> IRQT_NOEDGE. How can you get IRQs?
> 
> > I can test tomorrow if this patch leaves this board in tact, but
> > should the board-specific code not add this flag if it is required ?
> > By modifying this driver you will interfere the behavior of other
> > boards, and I do not know if there any level triggered types used.
> 
> Actually, the best way to go is to let the platform resources flags 
> decide about that with something like
> 
> 	resource->flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ | IRQT_RISING;
> 
> but the dm9000 does not care about them at all. Changing that would also
> imply modifications to all board support code.

I did have a go at trying to get people to pass the information this
way, but it seem to be ignored last time I sent it. I can dig out the
code that converts resource->flags to IRQT_ flags.

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