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

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Hi Felipe,

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Felipe Balbi 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 ?

That sounds like a separate issue from the spurious IRQ problem that the 
patch was intended to fix.   

I'm not familiar with the discussion on the stack overflow issue.  Could 
you send a link?

> 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.


- Paul
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