Sorry for that. i am having an bad habit of forgotting cc. People from mailing list i am expecting the answer.
Thanks alot.. -Varka Bhadram On March 28, 2014 at 12:07 PM Alexander Aring <alex.ar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Varka, > > please take the mailinglist always in CC. There are also other people > who knows more about the interrupt handling in at86rf230 > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:59:31AM +0530, Varka Bhadram wrote: > > Hai Alex, > > > > I have small question about interrupt handling. > > > > When an interrupt occur the control goes to the interrupt handler. In the > > interrupt handler interrupt on that irq line will be disabled automatically > > by > > the linux interrupt management, and re-enabled when the handler return with > > IRQ_HANDLED. We can check that by irqs_disabled() API. > > > > But in the driver code you are explicitly disabling the interrupts by > > disable_irq_nosync(irq ) and re-enabling by enable_irq(). Is there any > > reason ? > > > > The current driver is a mess, because the driver can sleep and isn't in > an atomic context. Phoebe talked about this issues several weeks ago, if > you have any improvements to this driver, please send patches with git > send-email to this list. Then we review it and you can send it to > netdev. > > I really don't like to send it directly to netdev, of course you can do > that but if you don't already realized that. The complete stack and > 6lowpan isn't maintained so david miller waits ~4 hours and apply it to > his branches and I don't have 4 hours to review and test it... > sometimes. > > - Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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