On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > Some frameworks (e.g. iio, gpiolib) use irq_work to implement simulated > interrupts that can be 'fired' from process context when needed and > requested just like normal interrupts. This is useful for testing and > development purposes. > > Currently this code is reimplemented by every user. This series > proposes to add a new set of functions that can be used by drivers > that want to simulate interrupts without having to duplicate any > boilerplate code. > > The first patch adds a simple irq simulator framework. The second > extends it with resource management. The third uses the new > functionality in the gpio-mockup testing driver. > > NOTE: The next candidate for using this API would be iio-dummy-evgen. I like the general idea - have not looked at the code yet. Just a quick question: How many copies/variants of this scheme do we have in tree? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
