Re: [PATCH] power_supply: Add driver for TWL4030/TPS65950 BCI charger

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:47:40PM +0200, Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Anton Vorontsov

> >> + ? ? /* WORKAROUND for lockdep forcing IRQF_DISABLED on us, which
> >> + ? ? ?* we don't want and can't tolerate. ?Although it might be
> >> + ? ? ?* friendlier not to borrow this thread context...
> >> + ? ? ?*/
> >> + ? ? local_irq_enable();
> >> +#endif

> > Can you explain why the driver can't tolerate disabled irqs?
> > Calling schedule_delayed_work() from an irq context should be OK.

> Ah, this is leftover from TI code this driver is based on, which used
> to do more things directly in interrupt handler. So I guess it can be
> removed, updated patch attached.

Actually, the genirq infrastructure in 2.6.32 has been improved to allow
I2C based interrupt controllers properly so even those twl4030 drivers
that do I/O in interrupt callbacks should now be able to run without
these workarounds once the core has been updated.
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