Subject: Regarding hw irq to Linux irq mapping on ARM

From: [email-masked] (Ben Dooks)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:08:57 +0100

On 24/09/10 16:06, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:45:32AM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
>> On 22/09/10 09:59, Eric Miao wrote:
> 
>>>> And i2c in many cases want to be called from sleep'able context... might
>>>> be a good idea to restrict some of these to threaded interrupts. A whole
>>>> different discussion I suppose.
> 
>> The i2c case, it is generally the code decoding the interrupt that needs
>> to do this, and is part of the i2c specific driver, and is written as
>> some form of thread or work-queue.
> 
> The standard thing these days is a threaded IRQ handler.

Yes, however my first point was really do we care the method
for the interrupt's detection when talking about mapping them?