On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:14 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> ----- "Andy Walls" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:35 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > 
> > > There is no particular order to these items. Most of these are hard
> > or time
> > > consuming to do. Otherwise I'd have done them by now :-)
> > > 
> > > - Both cx18 and ivtv use IRQF_DISABLED when registering the irq.
> > This flag is
> > >   bogus (and produces this annoying message in the log:
> > 'IRQF_DISABLED is not
> > >   guaranteed on shared IRQs'). Note that many drivers do this. This
> > is something
> > >   I discovered only recently.
> > 
> > I naively asked near the end of this discussion on the LKML what is
> > the
> > preferred solution to fix the "problem":
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/30/486
> > 
> > No one answered.  The whole thread was about the problem with
> > IRQF_DISABLED not being honored and the need to run with interrupts
> > disabled.
> 
> I have heard it said that some developers appreciate a reminder if an LKML
> conversation about their hobby horse seems to be passing them by.  Without
> my reading the whole thread, is such a target apparent?

My parser broke on your question.

However, this part of the discussion by Tom Glexiner (the RT Linux guy)
asks what I think are the right questions:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/30/215

That said, now I'm going to go back and read the whole thread just to
come back up to speed on all the issues.

Regards,
Andy

> Cheers,
> -- jra



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