Re: [PATCH] [staging] lirc_serial: allocate irq at init time

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On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 08:31:28PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:31:46PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> There's really no good reason not to just grab the desired IRQ at driver
> >> init time, instead of every time the lirc device node is accessed. This
> >> also improves the speed and reliability with which a serial transmitter
> >> can operate, as back-to-back transmission attempts (i.e., channel change
> >> to a multi-digit channel) don't have to spend time acquiring and then
> >> releasing the IRQ for every digit, sometimes multiple times, if lircd
> >> has been told to use the min_repeat parameter.
> >>
> >> CC: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_serial.c |   44 +++++++++++++++++------------------
> >>  1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >
> > This patch doesn't apply to the staging-next branch, care to respin it
> > and resend it so I can apply it?
> 
> This actually got merged into mainline a few days ago via the media tree.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c4b0afee3c1730cf9b0f6ad21729928d23d3918e
> 
> Do you want me to take a look at what's in staging-next and fix that
> up to apply on top of the above?

No, if it went in there, that's fine with me.

greg k-h
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