RE: [PATCH v5] PCI: Xilinx NWL: Modifying irq chip for legacy interrupts

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> 
> On 09/02/17 12:01, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> >> On 06/02/17 07:03, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> >>> +static struct irq_chip nwl_leg_irq_chip = {
> >>> +	.name = "nwl_pcie:legacy",
> >>> +	.irq_enable = nwl_unmask_leg_irq,
> >>> +	.irq_disable = nwl_mask_leg_irq,
> >>
> >> You don't need these two if they are implemented in terms of mask/unmask.
> >
> > These are being invoked by some drivers other than interrupt flow.
> > Ex: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
> > static int ath_reset_internal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct
> > ath9k_channel *hchan) {
> >          ....
> >          disable_irq(sc->irq);
> >          tasklet_disable(&sc->intr_tq);
> >         ...
> >         ...
> >         enable_irq(sc->irq);
> >         spin_unlock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock); } For us masking/unmasking
> > is the way to enable/disable interrupts.
> 
> And if you looked at the way disable_irq is implemented, you would have found
> out that it falls back to masking if there is no disable method, preserving the
> semantic you expect.
> 
Yes I did see, but this fall back requires extra "IRQ_DISABLE_UNLAZY" flag to be set to each virq. 
 
Bharat





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