On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:00:01 +0200 Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 12. joulukuuta 2011 22.31 Andres Salomon <[email protected]> > kirjoitti: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:41:25 +0100 > > Jens Rottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> one of our customers tripped over the fact that the MFGPT driver > >> won't share its IRQ with anyone else. (MFGPT defaulted to same IRQ > >> as audio, MFGPT driver loaded first, audio fails.) *No big deal!* > >> They don't actually need MFGPT and will simply disable it. It just > >> made me wonder ... > >> > >> Why would it be such a bad idea to use IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_SHARED > >> (see patch below)? mfgpt_tick() already does properly return > >> IRQ_NONE when it feels unresponsible. I tested it with either > >> driver loaded first and it seemed to work (well, at least audio > >> worked, don't know how to explicitly test cs5535-clockevt). > > > > Just loading cs5535-clockevt should start the periodic timer. On my > > XO-1, IRQ 7 starts firing immediately. > > Could it be a good idea to inform udev maintainers of this? > It *would* be nice to get it auto-loading.. _______________________________________________ Linux-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-geode
