Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: i2c-omap: Call request_irq with IRQF_DISABLED

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Felipe Balbi <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:55:50PM -0600, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>> Ben's right, there shouldn't be any need for this.  This patch could cause
>> some unnecessary interrupt service latency.
>
> That's not what Thomas Gleixner thinks. How about the possibility of
> stack overflow ?
>
> According to Thomas (and Ingo, I'd say) all drivers should call
> request_irq() with IRQF_DISABLED and that's gonna be true as soon as the
> threaded irq handler support gets merged, if I'm not wrong.

That's my understanding too, but I think it has always been true:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123607685804562&w=2

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Felipe Contreras
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