On Monday 02 March 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > But if that's what is keeping you from fixing the lockdep bug, > > why haven't you submitted patches to remove IRQF_DISABLED from > > the kernel, and update all the drivers relying on IRQs being > > enabled when their handlers run? > > I did so today. Just didn't realize things actually relied on it since > lockdep turned them off and my system has been working fine. That patch did no such thing. It added a BUG_ON(), which has nothing to do with removing IRQF_DISABLED. > Your driver needs threaded interrupts, Thomas is working on that now, > and I saw a conversion of your driver to use that. Thomas hasn't yet touched the issue of how to chain such IRQs though ... I consider his v2 patches a decent start, with some limitations that could be attributed to an x86 focus. > IDE PIO can hopefully also be converted to threaded interrupts. I have worked with ARMs with IDE support. That's become rare in new chips though, even for CF cards; it needs too many signal wires. - Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
