On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Carlo Caione wrote: > >> Several irqchip drivers require the level-triggered interrupt to be >> acked before unmasking to avoid that a second interrupt is immediately >> triggered. This small patch introduces a new irqchip flags that is used >> to ack the IRQ line before it is unmasked. > > And why are you not doing this in the unmask function of the affected > chip in the first place?
Because this is a common behavior of several irqchips (sunxi NMI controller, exynos, etc...) so I think it should be useful to have it in the core instead of replicating the same code structure in all the irqchip drivers. Thanks, -- Carlo Caione -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
