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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource•wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver•com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm•linux.org.uk>,
	openezx-devel@lists•openezx.org, sameo@linux•intel.com,
	haojian.zhuang@marvell•com,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab•ca>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM:mfd: fix ezx-pcap build failure
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:02:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120427180235.GA19778@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2732324.Os5djSkuuZ@yow-masselst-d1>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:28:28AM -0400, Mark Asselstine wrote:
> On April 26, 2012 22:52:58 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > What is the effect when the supplied IRQ does not have a mapping to a
> > GPIO - or it _does_ by way of a badly coded irq_to_gpio() function
> > but that GPIO is not the correct one.

> > There is no prevention against endlessly looping, so it could cause a
> > system lockup.

> Unfortunately the commit [b1148fd4 mfd: fix pcap irq bottom handler
> ] which modified things to loop as long as the interrupt is asserted didn't 
> supply much information regarding the behavior they were trying to achieve/fix 
> nor what would be the consequence of bailing earlier.

The usual reason for this pattern is to simulate level triggered IRQs on
an edge triggered interrupt controller.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-25 15:02 [PATCH] ARM:mfd: fix ezx-pcap build failure Mark Asselstine
2012-04-26 21:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-04-26 22:04   ` Mark Brown
2012-04-27 15:28   ` Mark Asselstine
2012-04-27 18:02     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-04-30 17:26       ` Mark Asselstine
2012-04-27 16:09   ` Grant Likely

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